BEN POWER   


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Plays by Ben Power

BEN POWER
Faustus
1st Produced:
Northampton, Royal
2004
Company:
-
1st Published:
2007
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
6
Female
3
Parts Other:
chorus
Notes: Original Playwright - Christopher Marlowe, adapted by Rupert Goold with Ben Power
Synopsis: Faustus, Mephistopheles and Helen of Troy are all present - but then comes the strange inclusion of Jake and Dinos Chapman. The Chapmans? Who let them in? The Chapmans are, of course, masters in the art of aesthetic hijacking - the most notorious recent example being their purchase of Goya's etching series Disasters of War in order to deface it with clowns and puppies' heads. They entitled the result Insult to Injury. Goold adds further insult to injury by interleaving scenes from the Renaissance play with a new scenario, devised with Ben Power, detailing the Chapmans' scheme to purchase and "rectify" the Goyas. It sounds like an act of hubris on a Faustian scale, yet unlike the necromantic doctor, Goold gets away with it. - Alfred Hickling, Guardian
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BEN POWER
Paradise Lost
1st Produced:
Northampton, Royal
2004
Company:
Oxford Stage Company
1st Published:
2006
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
6
Female
1
Parts Other:
angels
Notes: from the poem by John Milton
Synopsis: "Here at least we shall be free. Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven. . ." Defeated in battle and exiled from heaven, Satan burns in a lake of fire with his army of rebels around him. Consumed with envy, he plots his bitter revenge  to destroy Gods delight in his newest creation. During his hunt for Paradise on Earth, Satan sweet-talks his way out of hell and tricks his way across the universe to tempt Eve and seduce humanity.
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BEN POWER
Six Characters in Search of an Author
1st Produced:
2008
Company:
Headlong Theatre
1st Published:
2008
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
7
Female
4
Parts Other:
doubling
Notes: Original Playwright - Luigi Pirandello. version by Rupert Goold and Ben Power
Synopsis: Pirandello's classic play updated for the twenty-first century by the team behind Faustus. Blurring the border between fiction and life, between the stage and the world outside, Six Characters in Search of an Author exploded onto the stage in 1921 as one of the unique achievements of twentieth-century drama. Updated and recontextualised in this vertiginous new version, it becomes a dark parable for a media-obsessed age and an exhilarating exploration of how we define art, ourselves and 'reality' in the twenty-first century.
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BEN POWER
Tamburlaine The Great
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
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Parts:
Male
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Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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