8. DRAMA 1950-

 

Nos despedimos del teatro del siglo XX con otra obra de Beckett: Play

More extremely popular drama: you can check out on YouTube the musicals of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber, for instance Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, Cats, The Phantom of the Opera.... This is Herod's song from Jesus Christ Superstar.







DAVID EDGAR        (b. 1948)
_____. Destiny. Premiere at Aldwych Theatre, London, 1977. (Fascism).
_____. Mary Barnes. (Methuen's Modern Plays). London: Eyre Methuen.
_____. Nicholas Nickleby. Drama based on Dickens's novel. Performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company, 1980.
_____. Maydays. Drama. 1983.
_____. Albert Speer. 2000.


DAVID HARE        (b. 1947)
_____.  The Great Exhibition. Drama. 1972.
_____. Plenty. Drama. Prod. at the National Theatre, 1978. (Filmed 1985).
_____. Fanshen. Drama. 1975.
_____. Teeth 'n' Smiles. Drama. Premiere at London, 1975. (Pop concert at Cambridge).
_____. Licking Hitler. Director: David Hare. BBC, 1977. Online at YouTube (CIDrama14) 26 March 2014.*
    http://youtu.be/YmW-7DzNvzg
_____. Racing Demon. Drama.
_____. The Secret Rapture. Drama.
_____. Skylight. Drama.
_____. Amy's View. Drama. 1997.
_____. The Judas Kiss. Drama. (On Oscar Wilde). Broadway performance (with Liam Neeson, Tom Hollander and Peter Capaldi), 1998.
_____. "Why Fabulate?" The Guardian 2 Feb. 2002. (Documentary drama).
_____. Stuff Happens. 2004. (On Blair, Bush, Rice and Powell, Iraq war)
_____. Obedience, Struggle & Revolt. London: Faber and Faber, 2005.
Hare, David. Yesterday's News. Verbatim drama. Joint Stock Theatre Company, 1976.
_____. The Permanent Way. Verbatim drama. Prod. Joint Stock, National Theatre, 2004.
_____. Via Dolorosa. Verbatim monodrama, performed by Hare, 1998. (Israel and Palestine).
Brenton, Howard, and David Hare. Pravda: A Fleet Street Comedy. Drama. Prod. at the National Theatre, 1985.






CARYL CHURCHILL        (1938)


_____. Cloud Nine. Drama. Pluto, 1979. Rev. ed: Methuen, 1984.
_____. Top Girls. Drama. London: Methuen, 1982. Rev. ed. 1984.
_____. Serious Money. Drama. London: Methuen, 1987.
_____. The Striker. Drama. Nick Hern, 1994.
_____. Blue Heart. Short dramas (Heart's Desire, Blue Kettle). 1997.
_____. Far Away. London: The Ambassador Theatre Group / Old Vic Productions, 2000.
_____. A Number. Drama. London: Nick Hern Books, 2002.
_____. Drunk Enough to Say I Love You? Drama. London: Nick Hern Books, 2006.
_____. Seven Jewish Children: A Play for Gaza. London: Nick Hern Books, 2009.



BRIAN FRIEL        (1929-2015)

_____.  The Enemy Within. Drama. 1st produced Abbey Theatre, Dublin, at Queen's Theatre, 6 August 1962.
_____. Philadelphia, Here I Come!  Drama. 1964.
_____. The Freedom of the City. Drama. 1973.
_____. Volunteers. Drama. 1st peformed Abbey Theatre, Dublin, 1975.
_____. Faith Healer. Drama. London: Faber and Faber, 1980.*
_____. Translations. Drama. 1980.
_____. Making History. Drama. Performed by Field Day Theatre Company  1988.
_____. Dancing at Lughnasa. Drama. First produced Abbey Theatre, 1990.
_____. Wonderful Tennessee. Drama. 1st performed Abbey Theatre,  1993.
_____. Molly Sweeney.  Drama. 1st produced Gate Theatre, Dublin, 1994.


Irish dramatist, b. Omagh, Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland; l. Co. Donegal.


Is the playwright Dead? An Oxford debate with David Edgar et al. (audio).

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Aquí está (en varias partes) en versión original subitulada en inglés, la película de Tom Stoppard Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead—a metadrama if you've seen one:






http://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2014/01/rosencrantz-and-guildenstern-are-dead.html




Cosas adicionales:

Tom Stoppard últimamente: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21040546#

—aqui Michael Billington (famoso crítico teatral) sobre la última obra de Stoppard: http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/jan/17/tom-stoppard-the-hard-problem-national-theatre-london

Y como guionista en Anna Karenina. 

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TOM STOPPARD         (1937)

____.  Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Drama. Amateur premiere at the Edinburgh Festival, 1966; National Theatre, April 1967.
_____. If You're Glad I'll be Frank. Radio play. 1966.
_____. The Real Inspector Hound. Drama. 1968.
_____. Jumpers. Drama. Performed by the National Theatre, 1972. (Fascism).
_____. Travesties. Drama. Prod. RSC, 1975. (Joyce, Tzara, Lenin, The Importance of Being Earnest).
_____. Every Good Boy Deserves Favour. Musical play. 1977.
_____. Night and Day. Drama. 1978.
_____. Professional Foul. TV drama. 1978.
_____. Dogg’s Hamlet, Cahoot’s Macbeth. 1979.
_____. On the Razzle. Drama. 1981.
_____ . The Real Thing. Drama. 1982.
_____. Hapgood. Drama. 1988.
_____. Brazil. Screenplay. Dir. Terry Gilliam.
_____. The Invention of Love. Drama. (On Housman and Wilde).
_____. Arcadia. 1993.
_____. Rock'n Roll.
_____. Darkside. Radio play based on Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon. 2013. 
_____. The Hard Problem. Premiere at the National Theatre, dir. Nicholas Hytner, 2015.*
    http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/the-hard-problem









JOE ORTON        (1933-1967)

_____.  Entertaining Mr Sloane. Comedy. 1964.
_____. Loot. Drama. 1966.
_____. The Ruffian on the Stair. Drama. 1967.
_____. The Erpingham Camp. Drama. 1967.
_____.  What the Butler Saw. Comedy. Premiere, London, 1969.




Joe Orton, British playwright, homosexual, anarchic and irreverent comic style, murdered by his companion Kenneth Halliwell — see film Prick Up Your Ears.






HAROLD PINTER     (1930-2008)

_____. The Room. Drama. 1957.
_____. The Dumb Waiter. Drama. 1957. First performed 1960.
_____. The Birthday Party. Drama. 1957.
_____. The Caretaker. Drama. 1959, performed 1960.
_____. The Homecoming. Drama. 1st performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company, 1964.
_____. The Lover. Drama. 1963.
_____. Tea Party. TV drama. 1965.
_____. The Basement. TV drama. 1967.
_____. Old Times. Drama. London: Methuen, 1971.
_____. No Man's Land. TV drama. 1975. Granada TV prod. 1978. (With John Gielgud).
_____. Betrayal. TV drama. 1978. Feature film 1981.
_____. One for the Road. Drama. 1984.
_____. Mountain Language. Drama. 1988.
_____. Family Voices. London: Next Editions / Faber, 1981.
_____. Family Voices. In Pinter, Plays Four. London: Faber and Faber, 1993.
_____. A Kind of Alaska.







Harold Pinter, British modernist dramatist, b. East London, son of a Jewish tailor; itinerant actor, success as dramatist of incommunication; m. Vivian Merchant 1956, successful dramatic director, screenwriter; 1 son; unhappy marriage and adulterous affairs, affair and 2nd marriage with Lady Antonia Fraser 1975-, grand social life; exwife sunk into resentment and terminal alcoholism, estranged from him after divorce. Pinter went from existential to political dramatist, left-wing outspoken critic of Blair and Bush, human rights activist; Nobel Prize for Literature 2005, d. of cancer.






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Unas notas sobre HAROLD PINTER

No Man's Land - Tierra de Nadie de Pinter está este curso de gira por España.













14-15 de enero - Despedida con una visión panorámica de algunos autores desde 1950: Osborne, Beckett, Pinter, Stoppard...




ARNOLD WESKER   (b. 1932)
______. The Kitchen. Drama. Premiere 1957. London, Royal Court Theatre, 1959.
_____. Chicken Soup with Barley. Drama. 1958.
_____. Roots. Drama. Premiere at Coventry and London, 1959. (Working class, disillusion).
_____. I'm Talking about Jerusalem. Drama. 1960.
_____. Chips with Everything. Drama. Performed at the Royal Court theatre, 1962.
_____. The Merchant. Drama. 1976.







JOHN ARDEN        (1930)
_____. Live Like Pigs. Drama. 1958.
_____. Serjeant Musgrave's Dance. Drama. Premiere at the Royal Court Theatre, London, 1959.
_____. Left-Handed Liberty. Drama. 1965.
_____. The Hero Rises Up. Drama. 1968.
_____. The Island of the Mighty. Drama. 1972.
_____. Serjeant Musgrave Dances On. Drama. 1972.


JOHN OSBORNE     (1929-1994)

Osborne, John. Look Back in Anger. Premiere at the Royal Court Theatre, London, May 1956.
_____. The Entertainer. Drama. 1957.  (On a music-hall performer).
_____. Luther. Drama. 1961.
_____. Inadmissible Evidence. Drama. Premiere at London, 1965. (Solicitors, trials).





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LOOKING BACK AT OSBORNE'S ANGER (2006). http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4977716.stm

Edward Bond. Y una reseña sobre Saved.

Más sobre Bond—y Shakespeare: Un anillo en Bingo.
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SAMUEL BECKETT         (1906-1989)

_____. Waiting for Godot. 1953/54.
_____. Endgame. 1954/58.
_____. All That Fall. Radio play. 1957.
_____. Embers. Radio play. 1959.
_____. Cascando. Radio play. 1953.
_____. Krapp's Last Tape. 1968.
_____. Happy Days. 1961.
_____. Words and Music. Radio play. 1962.
_____. Play. 1963.
_____. Eh Joe. TV play. 1966.
_____. Breath. 1969.
_____. Not I. 1973.
_____. That Time. 1974.
_____. Ghost Trio. TV play. 1977.
_____. Catastrophe. 1984.







Samuel Beckett, Anglo-Irish and French modernist writer, b. Foxrock, Ireland; st. Portora School, Trinity College Dublin, Sorbonne; l. Ireland, Paris; loved cousin Peggy Sinclair; m. Suzanne Deschevaux-Dumesnil; member of the Resistance, l. in hiding in Roussillon; experimental writer and dramatist in English and French, l. Paris; Nobel Prize 1969; d. Paris.





Harold Pinter on Samuel Beckett: https://youtu.be/-N99S8n2TiA



Aquí un capítulo sobre el teatro desde 1960 hasta 1990

De las obras mencionadas allí, quizá os interese ver Marat/Sade en el montaje de Peter Brook, como modelo de obra influida por la estética del "teatro de la crueldad" de Antonin Artaud.

Y aquí otro capítulo sobre el teatro en los años 1945-60

Los dos vienen del manual de Andrew Sanders, The Short Oxford History of English Literature.







Más teatro irlandés, por así decirlo: HAPPY DAYS, de SAMUEL BECKETT