Friendly Fire & Eclipse - Couverture souple

Armitage, Peter

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0571206980 ISBN 13 : 9780571206988

Editeur : Peter Gill and Simon Armitage, 2000

Synopsis

Friendly Fire by Peter Gill and Eclipse by Simon Armitage, two plays for young people specially commissioned by the National Theatre for the BT National Connections Scheme.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Peter Gill was born in 1939 in Cardiff and started his professional career as an actor. A director as well as a writer, he directed over a hundred productions in the UK, Europe and North America. At the Royal Court Theatre in the sixties, he was responsible for introducing D. H. Lawrence's plays to the theatre. The founding director of Riverside Studios and the National Theatre Studio, his plays include The Sleepers Den (Royal Court, London, 1965), A Provincial Life (Royal Court, 1966), Over Gardens Out (Royal Court, 1968), Small Change (Royal Court, 1976), Kick for Touch (National Theatre, London, 1983), Cardiff East (National Theatre, 1997), Certain Young Men (Almeida Theatre, London, 1999), The York Realist (English Touring Theatre, 2001), Original Sin (Sheffield Crucible, 2002), Another Door Closed (Theatre Royal, Bath, 2009), A Provincial Life (National Theatre of Wales, Sherman Cymru, Cardiff, 2011), Versailles (Donmar Warehouse, London, 2014), As Good a Time as Any (Print Room at the Coronet, London, 2015) and Something in the Air (Jermyn Street Theatre, London, 2022). He died in 2026.

Simon Armitage was born in West Yorkshire and is Professor of Poetry at the University of Leeds. His collections, which have received numerous prizes and awards, include Seeing Stars (2010), The Unaccompanied (2017), Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic (2019), Magnetic Field (2020), Blossomise (2024) and his acclaimed translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (2007). He writes extensively for television and radio, and is the author of two novels and the non-fiction bestsellers All Points North (1998), Walking Home (2012) and Walking Away (2015). His theatre works include The Last Days of Troy, performed at Shakespeare's Globe in 2014. From 2015 to 2019, he served as Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford, and he was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2018. Simon Armitage is Poet Laureate.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Peter Gill and Simon Armitage
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0571206980
• ISBN 13: 9780571206988
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 112
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