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Beautiful doom

The work of Dennis Kelly on stage and screen

Häftad, Engelska, 2027

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Dennis Kelly’s award-winning plays have been translated into over thirty languages and produced on six continents. His endlessly inventive vision has produced a diverse body of work for a variety of audiences across a range of forms, genres, and media, from the Olivier and Tony Award-winning Matilda the Musical (2010), to the Channel Four cult-classic series Utopia. His 2008 play DNA, written for National Theatre Connections, is a set text on the AQA GCSE English Literature syllabus. This collection of essays written by leading scholars, teachers, and practitioners of theatre provides the first multi-authored study of Kelly’s critically acclaimed oeuvre. Featuring an original interview with Kelly himself, this volume captures the full range and scope of his writing for stage and screen, from the quirky fringe debut Debris (2003) to the globally-distributed film adaptation of Matilda the Musical (2022).

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Utgivningsdatum2027-01-19
Mått156 x 234 x 15 mm
Vikt409 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieTheatre: Theory – Practice – Performance
Antal sidor288
FörlagManchester University Press
ISBN9781807072483

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Introduction: ‘Grimy little people like me’: Situating Dennis Kelly – Jacqueline Bolton and Nicholas HoldenPart I: Incubation1 DNA in the classroom: Drama as English exam – Charlotte Bell2 Suspended in time and place: children and precarious masculinity in Dennis Kelly’s Girls & Boys – Marissia Fragkou3 ‘I’ll teach you a thing or two’: Dennis Kelly’s ‘School Plays’ – Jacqueline Bolton and Nicholas HoldenPart II: Antibodies 4 ‘Are you sick, yet? / Are you disgusted, yet?’: Watching torture in Dennis Kelly’s works – Clare Finburgh Delijani5 Utopia: Dennis Kelly’s ‘unworthy’ drama – Chris Megson6 Beautiful doom: The political aesthetic of Utopia – Sam Haddow7 Subjectivity in Dennis Kelly’s early drama: Towards neoliberalism – Basil ChiassonPart III: False positives 8 ‘I just want it to be your words’: Problematising verbatim theatre in Dennis Kelly’s Taking Care of Baby – Sarah Beck 9 ‘What is the difference between made up and real?’ Narrative, the ‘post-truth’ era, and Dennis Kelly’s The Ritual Slaughter of Gorge Mastromas – Catherine Love10 ‘What else isn’t true?’, or, Dennis Kelly’s expressionism – Mark Robson11 Atopia: Dennis Kelly, Modernity, and Community – David PattiePart IV: Variants 12 ‘Now look, are you going to tell me a story or not?’: The art and politics of storytelling in Matilda the Musical – Aloysia Rousseau13 Dennis Kelly’s The Gods Weep at the Royal Shakespeare Company –Catriona Fallow 14 Performing stories, engaging audiences: Dennis Kelly’s narrative aesthetic –Janine Hauthal Conclusion: ‘Your subject matter isn’t film, isn’t TV, isn’t books. It’s people, it’s real life’: An interview with Dennis Kelly – Jacqueline Bolton and Nicholas HoldenIndex

'This cutting-edge book brings together original and timely essays on the work of Dennis Kelly, one of Britain’s most fascinating contemporary playwrights and screenwriters. Offering nuanced perspectives on Kelly’s destabilising dramaturgy, searing storytelling and scenarios of acute moral ambiguity, Beautiful Doom explores his impact across stage and screen, from plays like DNA and Taking Care of Baby to Matilda the Musical and television dramas like Utopia and Together. The volume is packed with insights for scholars, students, and theatre practitioners alike – an indispensable resource for understanding the enduring significance of Kelly’s dramatic work across a range of media.'– Clare Wallace, Charles University