Galatea - Couverture souple

Lyly, John

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1350426709 ISBN 13 : 9781350426702

Editeur : Methuen Drama, 2023

Synopsis

Was anyone undone by fire, or turned to ashes through desire?

Two young trans people find love whilst escaping oppression; a shipwrecked migrant searches for his family; goddesses clash; parents fret; an alchemist brews magic and a teenage Cupid sets hearts on fire - causing chaos and near disaster. And all the while, time is running out! Galatea is an unapologetically queer tale of love, magic, and the importance of welcoming outsiders.

Galatea was originally written in the 1580s by John Lyly, William Shakespeare's best-selling but now long-forgotten contemporary, inspiring Shakespeare's comedies from As You Like It to A Midsummer Night's Dream. Performed in front of Queen Elizabeth I over four hundred years ago, this tale of love, joy and the importance of welcoming outsiders is an incredibly resonant story for modern times.

Galatea was originally commissioned by Brighton Festival, and adapted by Emma Frankland and Subira Joy, and edited by Andy Kesson. This text features set and costume design sketches by Mydd Pharo, BSL translation support from Duffy, and notes from each contributor on the creation of the piece. This edition was published to coincide with the world premiere at Brighton Festival, in May 2023.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

John Lyly was an English writer, playwright, courtier, and parliamentarian. He is sometimes grouped with other professional dramatists of the 1580s and 1590s like Christopher Marlowe, Robert Greene, Thomas Nashe, George Peele, and Thomas Lodge, as one of the so-called University Wits.

Emma Frankland is an award winning writer, theatre maker and performer, whose work is often described as playfully destructive, and gloriously irreverent.

Over the past decade, Emma's status has been established as a prominent and innovative theatre artist, whose work has been focussed on issues around gender identity and politically motivated performances.

She has written five solo shows, which were published by Methuen in 2019 as a collected volume "None of Us is Yet a Robot - Five Performances on Gender Identity and the Politics of Transition."

In 2023 she co-adapted John Lyly's classic play Galatea which was performed as part of Brighton Festival and is published by Bloomsbury.

She is Deputy Chair of the board for Selina Thompson Limited and has given consultancy on trans equality issues for many organisations.

Most recently she has written for Channel 4's iconic continuing drama Hollyoaks.

Emma also works as an actor and has appeared onstage at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre and Stratford East Theatre Royal and in multiple roles for BBC radio and television.

Subira Joy is a Black, trans, queer spoken-word performer, writer and activist, based in Brighton. Their work weaves together the personal and political, through experiences and imaginations, spoken with rage, softness, and laughter. Creator of award winning solo spoken-word show, Subira, and co-creator of Joy-Nduku, they have performed in the UK, Finland and Germany, and were poet-in-residence both at ONCA and Trope in March 2019. Subira regularly hosts their local poetry open mic, runs workshops, created poetry zine Doesn't It Set your Teeth on Edge and is the co-editor of Trans Kink Zine. Their show Kill the Cop Inside Your Head toured in autumn 2023.

Andy Kesson is a theatre historian and teacher who works with experimental, fringe and mainstream theatre companies and practitioners, from Emma Frankland to the Royal Shakespeare Company. He has led research projects on the earliest English playhouses (BeforeShakespeare.com), the history of bears in England (BoxOfficeBears.com) and the contemporary performance of early modern plays (GalateaProject.org), and runs the education platform ABitLit.co. He is the author of John Lyly and Early Modern Authorship, the editor of essay collections on print popularity and early English theatre, and works across the fields of literature, performance, archaeology, ancient-DNA analysis, animal studies and queer, trans and disability studies.

Mydd Pharo is an award- winning designer, director and visual dramaturg working in theatre, opera, TV, film and live event, creating both intimate and epic scale installations and productions throughout the UK and internationally. His work primarily focuses on immersive and interactive audience experiences and expands both conventional performance spaces and discovered ones. He is Artistic Director of Wildworks, an international site-specific theatre company specialising in large-scale performances in unusual locations. Mydd studied Theatre Design at Wimbledon School of Art and Fine Art Installation at Falmouth College of Arts. Mydd has exhibited selected works at the V&A Museum London. He has also designed works for: Kneehigh Theatre, Wildworks, The Globe, The Royal Court, Punchdrunk, 1418NOW, National Theatre, National Theatre Wales, National Theatre Scotland, Battersea Arts Centre, Lyric Hammersmith, Young Vic, Paines Plough, Stratford East, and The Eden Project.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Methuen Drama
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1350426709
• ISBN 13: 9781350426702
• Reliure: Broché
• Illustrateur: Pharo Mydd
• Nombre de pages: 128
• Éditeur: Kesson Andy
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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