LIBROS DEL AUTOR: david pownall

6 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: david pownall

  • Writing ’master Class’
    David Pownall
    Writing ’Master Class’ is a biography of David Pownall’s play, Master Class (1983), from conception to coming of age. Threaded through the account of the inception and development of the piece are twists of authorial life-story necessary for the telling. Whereas a novel or poem can be kept a secret until it is properly finished, a play has to go out to meet the people early. On...
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    20,25 €

  • Innocent Screams
    David Pownall
    Dawn, Coronation Day 1953. The artist Francis Bacon works on his portrait of Pope Innocent X, inspired by Velazquez’ masterpiece and his own deep absorption in human carnality. The chaotic studio is populated by characters possessing the power of change, who come to life in a satirical interplay of art, history, sex and politics. ...
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    18,60 €

  • The Dream of Chief Crazy Horse
    David Pownall
    This is an epic play written to be performed by children. It covers ten thousand years in the history of the American Indians and the European colonists who began to settle in the Americas in the 16th century, and its stage takes in Peru, Mexico,North America and the great rivers. It supplements history and geography lessons in a vivid and fascinating way and explores the Ameri...
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    18,63 €

  • Pownall
    David Pownall
    Includes the plays Beef, The Viewing, My Father’s House and Black StarBeef, a winner of the John Whiting Award, has so far only been published in radio form. In The Viewing a family buy a house which is haunted by God, while My Father’s House, commissioned by Birmingham Rep, looks at British politics through the eyes of Joseph Chamberlain and family. Black Star centres around t...
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    23,29 €

  • Radio Plays
    David Pownall
    An Epiphanous Use of the Microphone was commissioned by the BBC for the 75th anniversary celebrations of BBC Radio drama and broadcast in May 1998.This and five previously unpublished David Pownall radio plays, each an award-winner, make up a compilation of some of this country’s finest radio plays.Also includes the plays Beef, Floss, Ploughboy Monday, Under the Table, and Kitt...
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    30,99 €

  • The Composer Plays
    David Pownall
    Includes the plays Master Class, Elgar’s Rondo, Music to Murder By and Elgar’s ThirdThe creative artist in conflict with destructive external pressures and corrosive internal tensions is a recurring theme in David Pownall’s meticulously crafted plays. Master Class was first performed at the Haymarket Theatre, Leicester before transferring to the Old Vic; Elgar’s Rondo was perfo...
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    27,70 €