The Great Wave - Couverture souple

Turnly, Francis

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1350402370 ISBN 13 : 9781350402379

Editeur : Methuen Drama, 2024

Synopsis

This Student Edition is ideal for any teacher coming to Francis Turnly's 2018 play for the first time or those who already have some familiarity with it.

Spanning 1979 to 2003, The Great Wave looks at the mysterious disappearance of a Japanese schoolgirl and her mother and sister's tireless search to find her again. The girl - Hanako - is discovered living in captivity in a compound in North Korea, employed to teach a young woman Japanese language and culture.

Francis Turnly's gripping play is based on a a true story and it conveys, not only the magnitude of these events globally, but also the beating human heart at the centre of this story.

The commentary in the edition unpacks:

> the author's identity as a "Japanese Ulsterman", owing to his Northern Irish-Japanese heritage
> the play's place within a trilogy
> the significance of Japanese history and culture
> themes of occupation, colonisation, grief, loss and hope
> the use of language in the play (including English and phonetic Japanese and Korean)
> the play's use of objects as cultural markers
> the play's structure and representation of 24 years
> the play's form and genre
> productions of the play so far (including in London and San Francisco)

This edition is invaluable in helping to make sense of this thematically and contextually rich play for students, and to bring it alive through the discussion of its inherent theatricality and production opportunities.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Francis Turnly is a playwright, radio dramatist and screenwriter. He has written several plays for Radio 4 and his stage plays have been produced at numerous theatres across the UK and Ireland. He was a winner of a Channel 4 playwright bursary in 2015 and as a result was Playwright in Residence at the Kiln (then Tricycle) Theatre which culminated in him winning the Catherine Johnson Best Play Award in 2016 for his play The Great Wave which premiered at the National Theatre in 2018.

Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. is professor of theatre arts at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, USA, the author and editor of ten books including The Empire Triumphant: Race, Religion and Rebellion in the Star Wars Films, and a contributor to numerous volumes on sci-fi, pop culture and religion, including essays on Godzilla, Star Wars, and Battlestar Galactica. His areas of expertise include Japanese theatre, African theatre, Shakespeare, Greek tragedy, stage combat and comedy. He is co-editor with Patrick Lonergan of Bloomsbury Methuen Drama's Critical Companions series.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Methuen Drama
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1350402370
• ISBN 13: 9781350402379
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 160
• Éditeur: Wetmore Jr. Kevin J.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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