King Charles III - Brossura

Bartlett, Mike

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1848424418 ISBN 13: 9781848424418

Casa editrice: Nick Hern Books, 2014

Riassunto

Winner, 2015 Olivier Award for Best New Play
Winner, 2015 London Critics' Circle Award for Best New Play

Queen Elizabeth II is dead. After a lifetime of waiting, her son ascends the throne. A future of power. But how to rule?

Mike Bartlett's controversial "future history play" explores the people beneath the crowns, the unwritten rules of our democracy, and the conscience of Britain’s most famous family. Drawing on the style and structure of a Shakespearean history play,King Charles III opened at London’s Almeida Theatre, directed by its Artistic Director Rupert Goold, in 2014, before transferring to the West End. This brilliant, provocative play has shocked and thrilled audiences and critics alike, and will transfer to Broadway in Fall 2015.

"Dazzling... The most engrossing, entertaining and insightful new history play in decades." -New York Times

"Outstanding and provocative... The most spectacular, gripping and wickedly entertaining piece of lèse-majesté that British theatre has ever seen." -Telegraph

"Bold, brilliant and unstoppably entertaining... An intelligent, empathetic, moving look at the power and limitations of the modern monarchy... Theatre doesn't get much better than this." -The Times (London)

"Extraordinary... A meaty, hilarious, dizzyingly audacious state of the nation political thriller." -Time Out London

Mike Barlett is an Olivier Award-winning playwright whose plays have been seen at theatres including the National Theatre, Royal Court Theatre, Bush Theatre and Sheffield Theatres in the UK, and off-Broadway in New York.

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Flat out brilliant... dazzlingly presumptuous... takes all manner of audacious license, poetic and otherwise... an intellectually and emotionally gripping study of the strangely enduring anachronism that is the British monarchy and of the contemporary, star-struck world that can still find room for its royals... This splendid, high-reaching and utterly unexpected play. --The New York Times on the Broadway premiere.

It looks like a nifty little joke - a mock-Shakespearean history play, written almost entirely in blank verse, looking ahead to the heir apparent's ascension but it turns out to be much, much more. It turns out to be a takedown of the entire British establishment: monarchy, parliament, aristocracy, armed forces, media. In fact, it turns out to be the best British play since Jez Butterworth's Jerusalem. -- Matt Trueman

The most spectacular, gripping and wickedly entertaining piece of lèse-majesté that British theatre has ever seen... Blessed with wit, clarity and moments of deeper feeling. Outstanding and provocative... There is barely a moment when the fizz goes out of the writing and the narrative keeps springing surprises.... Tremendous. --Telegraph

Bold, brilliant and unstoppably entertaining... all the intrigue and forward momentum of a real history play. The grandeur too... King Charles III makes us care, makes us laugh, and no doubt will make us argue too. Theatre doesn't get much better than this. --The Times

A meaty, hilarious, dizzyingly audacious state of the nation political thriller... Elevates the tawdriness of the Royal soap opera into something sublime and serious... A thrilling working through of ideas about modern Britain. --Time Out

Pitch-perfect... Bracingly provocative and outrageously entertaining. --Financial Times

Brilliantly ambitious... deliciously smart... [the] script is a witty amalgam of Shakespearean rhythms and sharp modern colloquialisms threaded with light allusions to some of the Bard's greatest hits... Bartlett has found the perfect form for grappling with some of the doubts clouding our immediate national horizon... it's a compelling start to a fresh national conversation about monarchy, democracy and that most elusive and problematic of qualities - Britishness. --Exeunt Magazine

L'autore

Mike Bartlett exploded onto the scene in 2007 with the premiere of My Child at the Royal Court. Since then he has gone on to become one of his generation’s most inventive and successful dramatists with plays such asArtefacts (2008), Cock (2009), Earthquakes in London (2010) and13 (2011). 2012 saw the London premieres of Love, Love, Love, Medea andChariots of Fire, which transferred from the Hampstead Theatre to the West End. His playBull opened at the Sheffield Crucible in 2013 and transferred to New York as part of last years Brits off Broadway season. Another new play,An Intervention, also opens in April 2014. Mike joined NHB’s list of leading playwrights from Methuen last year. He lives in East London.

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• Editore: Nick Hern Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1848424418
• ISBN 13: 9781848424418
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 122