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Carmen Disruption de Simon Stephens

Carmen Disruption: Modern Plays

Autor Simon Stephens
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 10 apr 2015
I'll gather my breath. I'll walk out of my room. I'll know exactly where I'm going to go. The voice in my head tells me exactly where to go.

In the opulent grandeur of a European city, a renowned singer abandons the opera house for the truth of the streets. A gorgeous prostitute. A tough-talking taxi driver. A global trader. A teenage dreamer. Everyone's looking for something.

Simon Stephens's strange and beautiful play re-imagines Bizet's opera Carmen and the possibility of love in a fractured urban world.

Carmen Disruption received its world premiere at the Deutsche Schauspielhaus, Hamburg, in March 2014 and its UK premiere at the Almeida Theatre on 10 April 2015.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781474251600
ISBN-10: 1474251609
Pagini: 64
Dimensiuni: 124 x 194 x 6 mm
Greutate: 0.07 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Methuen Drama
Seria Modern Plays

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Recenzii

Simon Stephens' radical, fractured response to Bizet's famous opera . . . These are lonely souls, yearning for love, home, a sense of self and real connection in an age of superficial digital communication and narcissistic, illusory identities. How did we get from the passion and beauty of "L'amour est un ouiseau rebelle" to the arid twitterings of social media? Stephen evinces a timely sense of a modern malaise.
Stephens reimagines characters from Bizet's opera as avatars of current concerns about the saminess of the world cities in which we walk around wedded to our iPhones, together but alone. . . . Above all, Stephens gets his varied characters' need for something more solid than an iPhone to hold on to as they carry out their Skyped love affairs, nine-figure business transactions, unaccompanied nights at the opera. . . . fascinating.
Simon Stephens's extraordinary new play is less a recreation of the opera than a deconstruction of it, reflecting on the strangeness of a singer's vagabond life, our frantic dependence on social media and the increasing homogeneity of modern European cities. It is a crowded work, but a totally compelling one. . . . Stephens uses the framework of the opera to explore the fragmented isolation of modern life. . . . in Stephens's world, loneliness is accompanied by a helpless reliance on social media and new technology.
Stephens's writing has rarely felt sharper
Stephens writes with his usual harsh, chaotic beauty
. . . along comes Simon Stephens's "Carmen Disruption" to, well, disrupt whatever notions you may have about the well-made play. Elusive and fractured in its storytelling and often quite ravishing to behold, Mr. Stephens's new play uses Bizet's opera as the starting point for his own portrait of anomie as it besets a handful of people . . . Mr. Stephens co-opts his classical source only to deconstruct it as his play marches to its own distinctly mournful and haunting beat. . . . in its ability to locate the high drama that exists within all our lives, "Carmen Disruption," for all its gathering sadness, gets the last laugh.
Playwright Simon Stephens - whose stage adaptation of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time has become this hard-hitting writer's best known work - does a sterling job in justifying yet another.
Some plays make you feel the power of art in bringing people together: Simon Stephens's latest ostentatiously insists we notice what keeps us apart. The playwright uses broken shards of Bizet's opera to fashion a mosaic of monologues about our infatuation with technology and digital communication.
. . . a true response to a great work. . . . Carmen Disruption will go on reverberating, not because it beguiles but because it is so 3D dramatic. It is a depth charge to the theatre.
It's all deeply felt, darkly realised

Notă biografică

For more than twenty-five years Simon Stephens' work has been widely translated and produced throughout the world. He has won many Awards including Olivier and Tony Awards for new plays. His 2026 play An Ark staged by Tim Drum Collective at the Shed in New York was one of the first plays ever written for Mixed Reality . His radical adaptation of Uncle Vanya, Vanya, starring Andrew Scott ran in London's West End and at the Lucille Lortel , New York between Autumn 23 and Spring 25 and was screened to phenomenal success on NT Live and NT Home. His adaptation of Jose Saramago's Blindness was made into a light and sound installation that was produced internationally during the Covid 19 pandemic. His most famous play is his adaptation of Mark Haddon's best-selling novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. He has had thirty five original plays produced professionally.

He has written new English language versions of masterpieces by Chekhov, Ibsen and Brecht, collaborated with the world's leading theatre practitioners (Patrice Chereau, Ivo Van Hove, Marianne Elliott, Katie Mitchell) and produced original work throughout Europe, Asia, Australia and the Americas.

He has been Artistic Associate at the Lyric, Hammersmith and Associate Playwright at the Royal Court Theatre. He has taught playwriting workshops in five continents. He has presented four series of the celebrated Playwright's Podcast from the Royal Court Theatre. He is a Professor at the Writing School of Manchester Metropolitan University. His book A Working Diary was published by Methuen Bloomsbury in 2016. He lives in East London with his wife, three children, their snake, two cats and two dogs.