Richard Norton-Taylor, Nicolas Kent, Victoria Brittain, Gillian Slovo

The Tricycle (eBook, ePUB)

Collected Tribunal Plays 1994-2012

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From 1994-2012 Kilburn's Tricycle Theatre produced an extraordinary body of work that sought to engage, inform,and critique British and International Politics using verbatim testimony to respond to contemporary issues. Collected here for the first time are the complete 'Tribunal Plays'. 2014 marks the 20th anniversary of the Tricycle' sfirst Tribunal Play - Half the Picture. This collection celebrates a remarkable and enduring body of work.

Contains the plays Half the Picture, Nuremberg, Srebrenica, The Colour of Justice, Justifying War, Guantanamo, Bloody Sunday, Called to Account, Tactical Questioning and The Riots. Also included is a brand-new round table discussion with Nicolas Kent, Richard Norton-Taylor, Gillian Slovo and the playwright David Edgar, charting the history and development of each show and the contribution the Tribunal Plays have made to political theatre in the last two decades, and a foreword by Guardian journalist and chief theatre critic Michael Billington.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 920
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781783195671
• Artikelnr.: 41828922

Autorenporträt

Richard Norton-Taylor is an editor, journalist and playwright, known for his work in documentary theatre. Several of his plays are based on transcripts of public enquiries, among them The Colour of Justice (Tricycle Theatre, 1999).