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Gogol's greatest play - indeed one of the best comedies ever
written - freely adapted for studio productions.
This letter is the closest that Kafka came to setting down his
autobiography. He was driven to write it by his father's opposition
to his engagement with Julie Wohryzek. The marriage did not take
place; the letter was not delivered.
He wears a mask - he pretends to be an idling, strolling observer
of others: an amused spectator. He watches people on the street, in
shops, in cafes: wherever he finds them he notes their
peculiarities and imagines their lives. Like a naturalist with a
bone of an unknown creature, he extrapolates and forms an entire
animal in his mind's eye. It is his joy; it is his defence: he
revels in life, so as to ignore death. For its shadow lies over
him.
A diary in haiku - life at a rate of seventeen syllables a day.
Gregory Gun is devoted to his job and he is made redundant. And
then he struggles. But he tries to cope and he fights against his
own character; but finally he shuts himself away and becomes a
hermit in London, and lives a strange and secret life.
A diary in haiku - life at a rate of seventeen syllables a day.
A diary in haiku - life at a rate of seventeen syllables a day.
Thirteen seasons in three lines, 2003/4 - 2015/16, short and sharp
match reports from the Den.
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Woyzeck (Paperback)
Howard Colyer, Georg Buchner
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R277
Discovery Miles 2 770
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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A classic of the German stage adapted as a monologue. Though
written in 1837 Woyzeck is widely regarded as the first
Expressionist play due to its splintered and fragmentary nature.
Here it is presented in a new form.
Somebody must have maligned Joseph K. because he was arrested one
morning without having done anything wrong. Franz Kafka's novel
translated and adapted for the stage for solo performance. "Colyer
strips back the novel to get to the heart of the story but
maintains the dreamlike - or perhaps nightmarish - quality for
which Kafka was famous." Sian Rowland
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Naked (Paperback)
Howard Colyer, Luigi Pirandello
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R348
Discovery Miles 3 480
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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A young woman attempts suicide - but she's found before the poison
can kill her. A journalist becomes interested in her life, then a
novelist - stories circulate, more people are drawn in, and even
the Foreign Office tries to intervene. An adaptation of
Pirandello's play set in London in the winter of 1979-80. "A
thought-provoking play about identity, guilt and betrayal." UK
Theatre Network "It is a bitesize philosophy lecture...delivered
with confidence and competence." A Younger Theatre
An epic drama set in the early seventeenth century as Russia
descends into civil war. "Howard Colyer's extremely effective and
pared-down style constantly adds energy to this adaptation of
Pushkin's greatest play even as it cuts." Jon Wainwright, The
Public Reviews.
A man is convinced his daughter is a genius and he drives her on
and on until she has no choice but to reveal herself for what she
is. "It is not a tragedy in the sense of confrontation and
collision, but in the sense of a man overwhelmed by his fate. It is
a classical tragedy in the guise of a middle class drama." Roberto
Alonge
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1938 (Paperback)
Howard Colyer
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R239
Discovery Miles 2 390
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Late in the evening on 11 March, 1938, a man sits in a Jewish bar
in Vienna as the German army invades Austria. The other guests
flee, as does the owner, but he remains to contemplate his past and
his future - bleak though that may be. "With this dramatic
monologue, Colyer has continued to do what he does so skilfully-to
take a noteworthy piece of writing and adapt it freely to create
something new which has the essence of the original but is a
compelling stage work in its own right." British Theatre Guide.
Freely adapted from Joseph Roth's novel, The Emperor's Tomb.
You Take The 321, Again, Without Reluctance and Without Relief :
Three dramatic monologues about strange and enigmatic lives staged
together at the Jack Studio in South-east London in February 2015.
"Howard Colyer paints lyrical landscapes of failed relationships,
loneliness and desperation without ever giving in to
sentimentality." Carolin Kopplin UK Theatre Network
Gogol's short story, Diary of a Madman, adapted for the stage.
"This is a play about an individual's descent into madness, brought
to life by a brilliant trio of actor David Bromley, director Scott
Le Crass, and author Howard Colyer. But what makes the play
interesting is that Gogol's protagonist defies the literary mould:
he has a condition usually reserved for tormented kings and ladies
imprisoned in the attic. Rather than being ordinary, he is
'extraordinary', a term peppering Howard Colyer's script. Through
Poprishchin, Gogol portrays his contempt for government and
bureaucracy, and allows this lowly civil servant to become a
leader...at least in his own mind." Emma Slater, London Theatre,
reviewing the production at the Jack Studio.
A one act play with four characters. An interrogation and a ghost
story. A man's wife has vanished. He can't remember when or why;
nor can he remember his own name. "The relentlessness of this
nightmarish scenario transfixes us to the last." What's On London.
"This play of mysterious circumstances is created from an all too
familiar hollow conference centre with sinister, soulless
'doctors', reminiscent of the infamous Weird Sisters." What's Peen
Seen. "Completely spellbinding." Everything Theatre. "A briskly
delivered, recondite ghost story, it echoes with the torment of a
guilty conscience and the distress of a turbulent mind." British
Theatre Guide.
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Marriage (Paperback)
Howard Colyer, Nikolai Gogol
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R338
Discovery Miles 3 380
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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He wants to get married; and he doesn't want to get married - he
doesn't know what to do. But he has a friend who knows what's best
for everyone. Marriage is Gogol's farce about desire, matchmakers,
Imperial Russian speed dating and much else besides. "Howard
Colyer's adaptation of Gogol's intriguing, funny and slightly
unsettling play brings out the piece's absurdities. It's an
entertaining version, with satisfyingly pared-down and peppy
dialogue." Time Out.
The war is over and the hero returns. But what good is a hero
without a war? What else does he know but warfare? And his city has
managed without him. The gap left by his departure has closed. Yet
the problems he left behind have remained. They have lain dormant.
But his return revives them.
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