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Point Blank: 'Nothing to Declare', 'Operation Wonderland', and 'Roses and Morphine'


Point Blank: 'Nothing to Declare', 'Operation Wonderland', and 'Roses and Morphine'

Paperback by Tomlin, Liz

Point Blank: 'Nothing to Declare', 'Operation Wonderland', and 'Roses and Morphine'

£23.95

ISBN:
9781841501697
Publication Date:
15 Oct 2007
Language:
English
Publisher:
Intellect Books
Pages:
128 pages
Format:
Paperback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 27 - 29 May 2024
Point Blank: 'Nothing to Declare', 'Operation Wonderland', and 'Roses and Morphine'

Description

Point Blank, one of Britain's most provocative new theater companies, has received a deluge of critical acclaim for its darkly comic political satire and bleak metaphorical landscapes. Point Blank: Nothing to Declare, Operation Wonderland, Roses and Morphine, here reproduces three prominent examples of the company's early work and contextualizes these plays in the wider tradition and recent history of British political theater. In addition to the full performance scripts, Point Blank offers comprehensive notes to enable a range of potential restagings of the plays, as well as critical essays suggesting bold interpretations of the interplay between contemporary theatrical performance and the prevailing political climate. Editor Liz Tomlin offers invaluable insight into the company's dramaturgical processes that transform theoretical ideas into mythical, absurd scenarios and visually striking theatrical metaphor. Subversive and incendiary, Point Blank is forging a radical new vision of twenty-first-century theater.

Contents

'Point Blank' - Page 7 - Liz Tomlin 'Acknowledgments' - Page 8 - Liz Tomlin 'Telling Stories: The Point Blank Trilogy' - Page 9 - John Bull 'Nothing to Declare' - Page 17 - Liz Tomlin, with Selected Critical Reviews 'Operation Wonderland' - Page 39 - Liz Tomlin and Steve Jackson, with Selected Critical Reviews 'Roses and Morphine' - Page 73 - Liz Tomlin, with Selected Critical Reviews 'Fantasy and Delusion: The Dramaturgy of Point Blank's Nothing to Declare' - Page 99 - Steve Jackson 'Tracing the Footprints of Critical Thought: Point Blank's Work as Cultural Analysis' - 115 - Liz Tomlin

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