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It's risky work, handlin' men, my lass. For when a woman builds her
life on men, either husbands or sons, she builds on summat as
sooner or later brings the house down crash on her head - yi, she
does. In Husbands and Sons, Ben Power has interwoven three of D. H.
Lawrence's greatest dramas, The Daughter-in-Law, A Collier's Friday
Night and The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd. Together, they describe the
community Lawrence came from with fierce tenderness, evoking a
now-vanished world of manual labour and working-class pride. On the
cracked border of Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire stands the village
of Eastwood. The women of the village, wives and mothers, struggle
to hold their families and their own souls together in the shadow
of the great Brinsley pit. Husband and Sons by D. H. Lawrence,
adapted by Ben Power, premiered at the National Theatre, London, in
October 2015 in a co-production with Royal Exchange Theatre.
'Here at least we shall be free. Better to reign in Hell, than
serve in Heaven.' Defeated in battle and exiled from heaven, Satan
burns in a lake of fire with his army of rebels around him.
Consumed with envy, he plots his bitter revenge - to destroy God's
delight in his newest creation. During his hunt for Paradise on
Earth, Satan sweet-talks his way out of hell and tricks his way
across the universe to tempt Eve and seduce humanity. "Paradise
Lost", the greatest epic poem in the English language, is a richly
theatrical vision of the Fall of Mankind. This version is produced
by the Oxford Stage Company and begins a UK tour in April 2006.
'Sublime and thrilling, this will switch many people on to Milton
for life'. 'Juicy and decadent, Ben Power's version makes
voluptuous sense'. 'Wonderful...the choreography is inspired...an
admirable adaptation'.
A thrilling version of Ibsen's epic play, charting the true odyssey
of an astonishing man as he struggles to find spiritual fulfilment
and political pre-eminence. Made Emperor in Rome, Julian attempts
to abolish Christianity and restore the old gods. But met with
fierce resistance, this great free-thinker becomes a tyrant more
hated than his brutal predecessor, Constantius. And in arousing the
Christians from their apathy he advances their cause, his life and
death altering the course of history in stark opposition to his
intent. Ibsen's little-known masterpiece sweeps across Greece and
the Middle East from AD351, covering twelve crucial years in the
history of civilisation. Completed and published in 1873, Emperor
and Galilean was premiered in Leipzig in 1896. This newly created
version by Ben Power was first staged at the National Theatre,
London, in June 2011, marking the first time that Emperor and
Galilean had been performed on the stage in English. The production
was directed by Jonathan Kent, with Andrew Scott as the Emperor
Julian, and Ian McDiarmid as Maximus.
Pirandello's classic play, updated for the twenty-first century by
Headlong. Blurring the border between fiction and life, between the
stage and the world outside, Luigi Pirandello's play Six Characters
in Search of an Author exploded onto the stage in 1921 as one of
the unique achievements of twentieth-century drama. Updated and
recontextualised in this vertiginous new version, it becomes a dark
parable for a media-obsessed age and an exhilarating exploration of
how we define art, ourselves and 'reality' in the twenty-first
century. This version by Rupert Goold and Ben Power was first
performed at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester, in June 2008, in a
co-production between Headlong and Chichester Festival Theatre.
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