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ANDREW MOTION |
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Literary Agent: United Agents (agent: Simon Trewin) |
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Plays by Andrew Motion |
David And Goliath | ||
| 1st Produced: | 10 Oct 2011 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1849432276 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #133197 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Part of Sixty-Six Books: 21st-century writers speak to the King James Bible. Play is a response to the King James Bible book of 1 Samuel | |||||
| The King James Version of the Bible (KJV) is a foundation stone of the English language. The KJV was composed as a collective project and written to be spoken. Sixty-Six Books has been created, in the spirit of the original, in the same way. Pulpit to print; stage to page; mediated through many forms oral and written, the KJV has, since its inception, been a fundamental part of written and spoken English.This is a work that has travelled to every continent of the globe. It has been shared as a melodic instrument of inspiration, illumination and mutual understanding; and it has also been wielded as a tool of colonial oppression. Sixty-Six Books is a fresh interpretation of the KJV for the new millennium, celebrating and challenging the traditions and achievements of this great work on the occasion of its 400th anniversary. The curators of this project have gathered together a formidable and inspiring line-up of the best established and emerging writing talent to produce a new version of the KJV for thetwenty-first century. Each writer has created anew a book of the KJV - as prose, poetry, drama, performance, song, or ground-breaking digital form. Each writer has spoken back to the KJV with untrammeled inventiveness of the imagination. The voices of Sixty-Six Books, drawn from across five continents, innovate, transmute, transpose, reinvent and talk back to four hundredyears of history. All the works that make up Sixty-Six Books are written to be spoken. Culminating in major performance events at the Bush Theatre and Westminster Abbey in 2011 in London, Sixty-Six Books is a contribution towards the mutual curiosity, tolerance, and force of collective enterprise and shared humanity that characterizes the international and ancient arts of writing and spoken performance | |||||
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Incoming | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Studio, The Cut, Halesworth, IP19 8BY | 07 May 2011 | ||||
Company: | High Tide festival | |||||
| 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 | #125473 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | co-production with The Poetry Trust | |||||
Synopsis: | I mean to start with it was all about Taliban, or al Qaeda or poppies or whatever. Then as soon as our boys get killed it's about them. I went out there to stop people fighting, now I'm part of the reason it goes on. Marvellous. Two months ago, Steph's soldier husband was killed in Afghanistan. One winter morning, just before dawn, he appears. Incoming examines Britain's place in the world, the sacrifices made for that place and the repercussions, both private and public, of those sacrifices. It is a first play of true wisdom and sensitivity, by the poet, novelist, critic and academic, Andrew Motion. | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Volume XXXI (2011) Issue 09 Page 483 | |||||
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