Five Characters in Search of a Good Night's Sleep - Couverture souple

Alfreds, Mike; Linden, Sonja; Various

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1839041129 ISBN 13 : 9781839041129

Editeur : Nick Hern Books, 2022

Synopsis

Five insomniacs try to make it through the night. From dusk to dawn, they struggle with a crisis in their lives which they must resolve by morning. Increasingly conscious of their shortening futures and lengthening pasts, they fill their nights with distracting activities, desperate sleep techniques, evaluations of their lives, delusions, fears, panics and utter foolishness as they prepare to face the day.

Five Characters in Search of a Good Night's Sleep was first performed by ViSiBLE Theatre Ensemble at Southwark Playhouse, London, in 2022, in a production directed by Mike Alfreds. It was devised and written by Mike Alfreds with Sonja Linden and members of the company.

ViSiBLE is a theatre company dedicated to creating performance work that throws fresh perspectives on later life and living longer. A key aspect of its identity is creating work collaboratively, drawing on the creativity and talent of Britain's huge wealth of experienced older actors.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Mike Alfreds has been directing plays for more than fifty years. In the 1970s he founded Shared Experience, and has since worked for the National Theatre, Shakespeare's Globe, the Royal Shakespeare Company and also extensively abroad. He is hugely respected within the profession.

Sonja Linden is a playwright and Artistic Director of ViSiBLE Theatre Ensemble, which she founded create to new performance work that reflects the lives of older people in our society.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Nick Hern Books
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1839041129
• ISBN 13: 9781839041129
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 56
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• Personne responsable: non disponible