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Beautiful Doom: The Work of Dennis Kelly on Stage and Screen(Theatre: Theory – Practice – Performance)

Beautiful Doom: The Work of Dennis Kelly on Stage and Screen(Theatre: Theory – Practice – Performance)

          
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Dennis Kelly’s award-winning plays have been translated into over thirty languages and produced on six continents. His endlessly inventive vision has produced a diverse body of work for a variety of audiences across a range of forms, genres, and media, from the Olivier and Tony Award-winning Matilda the Musical (2010), to the Channel Four cult-classic series Utopia. His 2008 play DNA, written for National Theatre Connections, is a set text on the AQA GCSE English Literature syllabus. This collection of essays written by leading scholars, teachers, and practitioners of theatre provides the first multi-authored study of Kelly’s critically acclaimed oeuvre. Featuring an original interview with Kelly himself, this volume captures the full range and scope of his writing for stage and screen, from the quirky fringe debut Debris (2003) to the globally-distributed film adaptation of Matilda the Musical (2022).

Table of Contents:
Introduction: ‘Grimy little people like me’: Situating Dennis Kelly – Jacqueline Bolton and Nicholas Holden Part I: Incubation 1 DNA in the classroom: Drama as English exam – Charlotte Bell 2 Suspended in time and place: children and precarious masculinity in Dennis Kelly’s Girls & Boys – Marissia Fragkou 3 ‘I’ll teach you a thing or two’: Dennis Kelly’s ‘School Plays’ – Jacqueline Bolton and Nicholas Holden Part II: Antibodies 4 ‘Are you sick, yet? / Are you disgusted, yet?’: Watching torture in Dennis Kelly’s works – Clare Finburgh Delijani 5 Utopia: Dennis Kelly’s ‘unworthy’ drama – Chris Megson 6 Beautiful doom: The political aesthetic of Utopia – Sam Haddow 7 Subjectivity in Dennis Kelly’s early drama: Towards neoliberalism – Basil Chiasson Part III: False positives 8 ‘I just want it to be your words’: Problematising verbatim theatre in Dennis Kelly’s Taking Care of Baby – Sarah Beck 9 ‘What is the difference between made up and real?’ Narrative, the ‘post-truth’ era, and Dennis Kelly’s The Ritual Slaughter of Gorge Mastromas – Catherine Love 10 ‘What else isn’t true?’, or, Dennis Kelly’s expressionism – Mark Robson 11 Atopia: Dennis Kelly, Modernity, and Community – David Pattie Part IV: Variants 12 ‘Now look, are you going to tell me a story or not?’: The art and politics of storytelling in Matilda the Musical – Aloysia Rousseau 13 Dennis Kelly’s The Gods Weep at the Royal Shakespeare Company –Catriona Fallow 14 Performing stories, engaging audiences: Dennis Kelly’s narrative aesthetic –Janine Hauthal Conclusion: ‘Your subject matter isn’t film, isn’t TV, isn’t books. It’s people, it’s real life’: An interview with Dennis Kelly – Jacqueline Bolton and Nicholas Holden Index


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781526145222
  • Publisher: Manchester University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Manchester University Press
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 288
  • Series Title: Theatre: Theory – Practice – Performance
  • Sub Title: The Work of Dennis Kelly on Stage and Screen
  • Width: 156 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1526145227
  • Publisher Date: 01 Apr 2025
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 24 mm
  • Weight: 770 gr


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