Odon von Horvath's 1936 drama imagines the former voluptuary, older and emotionally scarred by his experience of the Great War, discovering unfamiliar thoughts of morality and responsibility that clash confusingly with his habitual licentiousness. His internal conflict is never resolved, but serves as an unforced metaphor for Germany's postwar identity crisis.Duncan Macmillan's new version streamlines the story and cuts several characters, but leaves the Don in a world made up entirely of women, so that in Andrea Ferran's production six actresses skilfully handle roles from nuns to...
Odon von Horvath's 1936 drama imagines the former voluptuary, older and emotionally scarred by his experience of the Great War, discovering unfamiliar...
"He's got zero empathy. You could be having a conversation and start choking to death and he'd just think, 'Well, this conversation's over.'He'd probably just sit there and finish eating whatever you were choking on." An inexperienced teacher is given the job of saving a disturbed and violent fourteen-year-old boy from permanent exclusion. Alone in the classroom, an intense battle of wills takes place. But what can be done when a child cares for no one and is afraid of nothing? Monster won two awards at the inaugural Bruntwood Playwriting Competition and was first performed in 2007...
"He's got zero empathy. You could be having a conversation and start choking to death and he'd just think, 'Well, this conversation's over.'He'd pr...
