A one act play with four characters. An interrogation and a ghost story. A man's wife has vanished. He can't remember when or why; nor can he remember his own name. "The relentlessness of this nightmarish scenario transfixes us to the last." What's On London. "This play of mysterious circumstances is created from an all too familiar hollow conference centre with sinister, soulless 'doctors', reminiscent of the infamous Weird Sisters." What's Peen Seen. "Completely spellbinding." Everything Theatre. "A briskly delivered, recondite ghost story, it echoes with the torment of a guilty conscience...
A one act play with four characters. An interrogation and a ghost story. A man's wife has vanished. He can't remember when or why; nor can he remember...
Franz Kafka's Letter to my Father adapted for the stage. It opened at the Brockley Jack Theatre in London on Tuesday, 17 January, 2012. 'The tortured life of Franz Kafka provides the material for this fascinating play.' William Russell, Reviews Gate. 'An exceptionally well-tailored piece.' Amelia Forsbrook, Remotegoat. 'The play circles the two men locked in a trial of strength... each gifted by an extreme power. Alas those powers do not complement each other - they destroy each other.' Gary Naylor, Red Room. 'The deepest strength of Colyer's scripting lies in the fact that it is possible to...
Franz Kafka's Letter to my Father adapted for the stage. It opened at the Brockley Jack Theatre in London on Tuesday, 17 January, 2012. 'The tortured ...
An epic drama set in the early seventeenth century as Russia descends into civil war. "Howard Colyer's extremely effective and pared-down style constantly adds energy to this adaptation of Pushkin's greatest play even as it cuts." Jon Wainwright, The Public Reviews.
An epic drama set in the early seventeenth century as Russia descends into civil war. "Howard Colyer's extremely effective and pared-down style consta...
The war is over and the hero returns. But what good is a hero without a war? What else does he know but warfare? And his city has managed without him. The gap left by his departure has closed. Yet the problems he left behind have remained. They have lain dormant. But his return revives them.
The war is over and the hero returns. But what good is a hero without a war? What else does he know but warfare? And his city has managed without him....
You Take The 321, Again, Without Reluctance and Without Relief: Three dramatic monologues about strange and enigmatic lives staged together at the Jack Studio in South-east London in February 2015. ""Howard Colyer paints lyrical landscapes of failed relationships, loneliness and desperation without ever giving in to sentimentality."" Carolin Kopplin UK Theatre Network
You Take The 321, Again, Without Reluctance and Without Relief: Three dramatic monologues about strange and enigmatic lives staged together at the Jac...
Late in the evening on 11 March, 1938, a man sits in a Jewish bar in Vienna as the German army invades Austria. The other guests flee, as does the owner, but he remains to contemplate his past and his future - bleak though that may be. ""With this dramatic monologue, Colyer has continued to do what he does so skilfully-to take a noteworthy piece of writing and adapt it freely to create something new which has the essence of the original but is a compelling stage work in its own right."" British Theatre Guide. Freely adapted from Joseph Roth's novel, The Emperor's Tomb.
Late in the evening on 11 March, 1938, a man sits in a Jewish bar in Vienna as the German army invades Austria. The other guests flee, as does the own...
He wears a mask - he pretends to be an idling, strolling observer of others: an amused spectator. He watches people on the street, in shops, in cafes: wherever he finds them he notes their peculiarities and imagines their lives. Like a naturalist with a bone of an unknown creature, he extrapolates and forms an entire animal in his minds eye. It is his joy; it is his defence: he revels in life, so as to ignore death. For its shadow lies over him.
He wears a mask - he pretends to be an idling, strolling observer of others: an amused spectator. He watches people on the street, in shops, in cafes...
A man is convinced his daughter is a genius and he drives her on and on until she has no choice but to reveal herself for what she is. "It is not a tragedy in the sense of confrontation and collision, but in the sense of a man overwhelmed by his fate. It is a classical tragedy in the guise of a middle class drama." Roberto Alonge
A man is convinced his daughter is a genius and he drives her on and on until she has no choice but to reveal herself for what she is. "It is not a tr...
Somebody must have maligned Joseph K. because he was arrested one morning without having done anything wrong. Franz Kafka's novel translated and adapted for the stage for solo performance. ""Colyer strips back the novel to get to the heart of the story but maintains the dreamlike - or perhaps nightmarish - quality for which Kafka was famous."" Sian Rowland"
Somebody must have maligned Joseph K. because he was arrested one morning without having done anything wrong. Franz Kafka's novel translated and adapt...
A classic of the German stage adapted as a monologue. Though written in 1837 Woyzeck is widely regarded as the first Expressionist play due to its splintered and fragmentary nature. Here it is presented in a new form.
A classic of the German stage adapted as a monologue. Though written in 1837 Woyzeck is widely regarded as the first Expressionist play due to its spl...
