'This is a valuable quartet of honest, touching and powerful plays.' www.whatsonstage.com (September 2009)
Few playwrights have been as successful as Kwame Kwei-Armah at bringing a distinctive new voice and examination of our culture to the stage in recent years. This collection of his work includes his trilogy of plays commissioned and produced by the National Theatre between 2003 and 2008, and Let There Be Love, first produced at the Tricycle Theatre, London, in 2008. Elmina's Kitchen won him awards for most promising new playwright and was described as 'a scorching drama about the black experience in Britain's inner cities...there is no mistaking its raw power, humanity and urgent concern' (Daily Telegraph). Fix Up explores race and cultural roots and heritage with verve and wit, setting heritage against the inexorable march of time and change. Statement of Regret explore tensions within the Black community amid changes in the team leading an influential Black policy think-tank. The final play, Let There Be Love, was presented at the Tricycle Theatre, London, in 2008: 'a smart and possibly noble exploration of what it takes to be human and happy' Evening Standard . The volume is introduced by the author and features a chronology of his work..
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The first collection of plays by the author of the successful trilogy of work produced at the National Theatre between 2003 and 2008. Besides Elmina's Kitchen, winner of the Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright, the volume contains Fix Up, Statement of Regret and Let There Be Love.
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Elmina's Kitchen; Fix Up; Statement of Regret; Let There Be Love
Elmina's Kitchen has been made into a film and won him the 2004 Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright The first publication of his 2008 hit play Let There be Love, produced originally in January 2008 and brought back owing to its success. Contains Kwei-Armah's trilogy of plays produced at the National Theatre which examine the Black British experience Kwei-Armah enjoys a high profile as a playwright and cultural commentator, often appearing on the TV and radio He has a new play opening at the Tricycle Theatre, London, in October and another at the National Theatre in 2010.
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<i>Elmina's Kitchen </i>has been made into a film and won him the 2004 Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright
The Contemporary Dramatists series celebrates the work of individual writers, bringing together into single volumes a number of plays from their oeuvre. Each volume includes a chronology of the writer's work and an introduction to the plays featured. The series is truly international with collections from leading French, German, Italian and American writers, as well as the best of British playwrights. Taken as a whole, it represents an index of great contemporary playwriting.
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781408115602
Publisert
2009-07-31
Utgiver
Vendor
Methuen Drama
Vekt
288 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
128 mm
Dybde
21 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
352
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