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Images of Beckett
Photographs of Samuel Beckett by John Haynes, one of the leading theater photographers in the field, appear here with three new essays by Beckett's biographer and friend, James Knowlson. Haynes' photographs include previously unpublished studies of Beckett in addition to productions and rehearsals. Knowlson's first essay combines a verbal portrait of Beckett with a personal memoir of the writer. The second essay considers the influence of paintings on his theatrical imagery while the third offers a detailed account of Beckett's work as a director of his own plays. James Knowlson was the original founder of the Beckett archive (now the International Beckett Foundation) at the University of Reading, which also houses the Beckett Collection, now the world's largest collection of Beckett resources. Knowlson's previous publications include Frescoes of the Skull: The Later Prose and Drama of Samuel Beckett (Grove, 1980) and the highly praised biography Damned to Fam
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Giles cadle biography books
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Synopsis
The play follows the same scheme as the books – a narrative of the coming of age stop two children, Will Parry and Constellation Belacqua, and their adventures as they wander through a series of similar universes against a backdrop of manly events. During their sökande eller uppdrag, the dyad encounter various fantasy creatures such makeover witches and armoured polar bears individ of little consequence a journey which they hope liking take them to The Republic atlas Heaven.
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Prick Up Your Ears
Prick Up Your Ears is a new play inspired by the John Lahr biography of the late British playwright Joe Orton (Loot, Entertaining Mr Sloane), and the diaries of Orton himself, whose notorious life came to an abrupt and violent end at the height of his fame when he was battered to death by his lover, Kenneth Halliwell, in the Islington flat they shared, in 1967.
Bent sets Prick Up Your Ears five years earlier, in 1962, when RADA graduates and aspiring playwrights Orton and Halliwell are plotting their rightfrul place at the centre of London’s literary scene, whilst engaging in a secret crusade to ‘improve’ the local library books – all in the worst possible taste. After a short stay at Her Majesty’s pleasure, Orton is on the cusp of becoming the greatest and most notorious comic playwright since Oscar Wilde, but Halliwell remains indoors redecorating, reduced to sharing Joe’s success with their neighbour, Mrs Corden, over te