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9781408179857 1408179857 Pornography refracts the events of the first week of July 2005 (the G8 summit, Live 8, the announcement of the 2012 Olympics and the 7/7 bombings) through the perspectives of eight anonymous individuals, including a terrorist. The play can be performed by any number of actors and the scenes presented in any order, eschewing any linear or causal delineation of the plot.This flexibility means that it is ideal for student groups: containing four monologues, two duologues and fifty-two self-contained anecdotal speeches.Exploring the complexity of human nature, Pornography presents a fragmented, atomised society as unnamed characters commit acts of transgression: a woman leaks a confidential report to her company's nearest competitor; a schoolboy attacks a teacher; a brother and sister enter into an incestuous relationship; and a British-born Muslim walks onto the London Underground with a bomb in his rucksack. Testing and revising established ideas of social realism, Pornography could justifiably be described as a State-of-the-Nation play, yet its form and structure departs from received ideas of what these plays 'look' like.This edition illuminates the meaning, context and performance choices available in this elliptical, subtle and political play. The in-depth commentary explores the play's themes, its kaleidoscopic structure and the play's production history, looking at both the play's German and UK premieres. The editor Jacqueline Bolton incorporates previously unpublished interviews with Simon Stephens and the directors and dramaturgs (Sebastian Nubling, Barbara Christ and Sean Holmes) associated with the early productions. The commentary reveals the play's performance possibilities, as well as elucidating its broad scope, accomplished form, innovative structure and compassionate impetus., Pornographylooks at the events of the first week of July 2005 (the G8 summit, Live 8, the announcement of the 2012 Olympics and the 7/7 bombings) through the perspectives of eight anonymous individuals, including a terrorist. The play can be performed by any number of actors with the scenes presented in any order. This flexibility means that it is ideal for student groups: containing four monologues, two duologues and fifty-two self-contained anecdotal speeches.This Student Edition offers a study of the meaning, context and performance choices available in this subtle and political play. The in-depth commentary explores the play's themes, its kaleidoscopic structure and the play's production history, looking at both the German and UK premieres. The editor, Jacqueline Bolton, incorporates previously unpublished interviews with Simon Stephens and the directors and dramaturgs (Sebastian Nubling, Barbara Christ and Sean Holmes) associated with the early productions. The commentary reveals the play's performance possibilities, as well as discussing its accomplished form, innovative structure and compassionate impetus. It also includes a chronology of the playwright's life and work, an introduction giving the background to the play, commentary on themes, characters, language and style, notes on individual words and phrases in the text, questions for further study and bibliography and further reading.
9781408179857 1408179857 Pornography refracts the events of the first week of July 2005 (the G8 summit, Live 8, the announcement of the 2012 Olympics and the 7/7 bombings) through the perspectives of eight anonymous individuals, including a terrorist. The play can be performed by any number of actors and the scenes presented in any order, eschewing any linear or causal delineation of the plot.This flexibility means that it is ideal for student groups: containing four monologues, two duologues and fifty-two self-contained anecdotal speeches.Exploring the complexity of human nature, Pornography presents a fragmented, atomised society as unnamed characters commit acts of transgression: a woman leaks a confidential report to her company's nearest competitor; a schoolboy attacks a teacher; a brother and sister enter into an incestuous relationship; and a British-born Muslim walks onto the London Underground with a bomb in his rucksack. Testing and revising established ideas of social realism, Pornography could justifiably be described as a State-of-the-Nation play, yet its form and structure departs from received ideas of what these plays 'look' like.This edition illuminates the meaning, context and performance choices available in this elliptical, subtle and political play. The in-depth commentary explores the play's themes, its kaleidoscopic structure and the play's production history, looking at both the play's German and UK premieres. The editor Jacqueline Bolton incorporates previously unpublished interviews with Simon Stephens and the directors and dramaturgs (Sebastian Nubling, Barbara Christ and Sean Holmes) associated with the early productions. The commentary reveals the play's performance possibilities, as well as elucidating its broad scope, accomplished form, innovative structure and compassionate impetus., Pornographylooks at the events of the first week of July 2005 (the G8 summit, Live 8, the announcement of the 2012 Olympics and the 7/7 bombings) through the perspectives of eight anonymous individuals, including a terrorist. The play can be performed by any number of actors with the scenes presented in any order. This flexibility means that it is ideal for student groups: containing four monologues, two duologues and fifty-two self-contained anecdotal speeches.This Student Edition offers a study of the meaning, context and performance choices available in this subtle and political play. The in-depth commentary explores the play's themes, its kaleidoscopic structure and the play's production history, looking at both the German and UK premieres. The editor, Jacqueline Bolton, incorporates previously unpublished interviews with Simon Stephens and the directors and dramaturgs (Sebastian Nubling, Barbara Christ and Sean Holmes) associated with the early productions. The commentary reveals the play's performance possibilities, as well as discussing its accomplished form, innovative structure and compassionate impetus. It also includes a chronology of the playwright's life and work, an introduction giving the background to the play, commentary on themes, characters, language and style, notes on individual words and phrases in the text, questions for further study and bibliography and further reading.