Playboys of the Western World: Production Histories

ISBN-13: 9781788749787 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 182 str.

Adrian Frazier

Opis

The book is remarkably well-focused: half is a series of production histories of Playboy performances through the twentieth century in the UK, Northern Ireland, the USA, and Ireland. The remainder focuses on one contemporary performance, that of Druid Theatre, as directed by Garry Hynes

Spis treści

Acknowledgements - List of Illustrations - Adrian Frazier: Introduction - PLAYBOYS OF THE PAST - Paige Reynolds: The First Playboy - Ophelia Byrne: Belfast Said 'No' to The Playboy - John P. Harrington: The Playboy IN the Western World: J. M. Synge's Play in America - Adrian Frazier: 'Quaint Pastoral Numbskulls': Siobhán McKenna's Playboy Film - Nicholas Grene: Two London Playboys: Before and After Druid - Roundtable Discussion with Garry Hynes - PLAYBOY 2004: EIGHT VIEWS - Ophelia Byrne: Terrible Truths, of our own making - Adrian Frazier: Postmodern Paddywhackery -Nicholas Grene: Redesigning The Playboy - John P. Harrington: Poetry, Romance, Clay, Worms - Mary C. King: Gallous Stories and Dirty Deeds - Bill Mc Cormack: Notes from the Borderland - Lionel Pilkington: The Playboy of the Western World as Cultural Event - Paige Reynolds: Separate Spheres and Celebrity Casting - Index - Contributors.