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JEHANE MARKHAM |
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Plays by Jehane Markham |
Birth of Pleasure, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Rosemary Branch, London | 1997 | ||||
Company: | Wonderful Beast | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #22455 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Hermes | ||
| 1st Produced: | Rosemary Branch, London | 2006 | ||||
Company: | Rough Winds Productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #58218 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | Strange show this. It seems nothing more than a children's musical, telling the story of how Hermes earned his place among the Olympian gods by stealing his brother Apollo's cattle. Yet, you can't shake off the feeling that Jehane Markham's libretto is striving for something rather more. lts there in the beautiful, mysterious figure of Hecate, the goddess of witchcraft, who presides over proceedings to no obvious purpose. It's there in the jazz bar setting, which adds a similarly indefinable frisson. It's there too in the constant asides to the main action, when Zeus and Hera argue about the former's various affairs. These references to other myths do, in fact, echo the classical poems on which Markham has based her narrative. Given extended development, however, they slow down a story which already has little going for it. Markham strives to find the depths in this myth, but, expressed in endless badly rhymed couplets, her attempts at psychological complexity - Hermes' longing for recognition, his fraternal jealousy - come across as jejune. It's not helped by a ridiculous performance from Nick Ingram who makes Hermes a brash, shouty child to the detriment of his singing and his audience appeal. Yet all of this is made more pleasant by Pete Letanka's score. Performed with lyrical cool by a jazz trio in the corner, studded with some lovely choral sections, it remains an aural treat even if it rarely helps along the drama. A strange show, as I said, but not altogether unpleasant. | |||||
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| 1st Published: | EM, 1978 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #42073 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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