Betts: Plays Two by Torben Betts
Includes the plays Incarcerator, Five Visions of the Faithful, Silence and Violence, The Last Days of Desire, The Biggleswades. With an Introduction by David Pownall, and an essay by Peter Craze A volume of language-rich, theatrically-ambitious tragedies. Betts' hugely popular verse drama Incarcerator (White Bear and BAC) was a Time Out Critics' Choice, while his Five Visions of the Faithful (White Bear), is a series of uncompromising narratives exploring freedom, faith, death and desire. In Silence and Violence the wife of a war hero seduces a much-reviled sculptor as Betts examines the artist's quest for self-expression in a Philistine state. Betts' first radio play, The Last Days of Desire, was commissioned by the BBC.-
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Like a Virgin
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Midsummer Mischief
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Duncan Macmillan: Plays One
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Dennis Kelly: Plays Two
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Laura Wade: Plays One
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Howard Barker: Plays Two
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Dust & A First World Problem
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Barker: Plays One
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Jen Silverman: Three Plays
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Abi Morgan: Two Plays
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The Oberon Anthology of Contemporary American Plays
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Keith Waterhouse: Collected Plays
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Up On Roof
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Gary Owen: Collected Plays
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Maxwell: Plays for Young People
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Plays for Young People
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Fosse: Plays One
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de Wet: Plays One
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Oliver Lansley: Les Enfants Terribles; Collected Plays
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Nassim Soleimanpour: Two Plays
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Oscar Wilde: Three Plays for Children
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My White Best Friend
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Political Plays
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The Oberon Anthology of Contemporary Irish Plays
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Whiting: Plays One
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Gail Louw: Plays Two
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Agota Kristof: Collected Plays
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Carl Grose: Plays One
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J.B. Priestley: Plays Three
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Oladipo Agboluaje: Plays One
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Tantalus
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Bhatti: Plays One
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Three Farces and a Comedy
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Atypical Plays for Atypical Actors
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Two Plays for Young People
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Theatre Cafe: Plays One
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Gail Louw: Collected Plays
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Richard Bean: Plays Five
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Ostrovsky: Plays Two
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Barney Norris: Plays One
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Richard Bean: Plays One
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Ostrovsky: Four Plays
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Noah Haidle: Three Plays
"Betts is an immensely promising talent destined for great things" What's On 'just about the most original and extraordinary writer of drama we have..a boldly visionary poet...a political Beckett...a flamingly original writer we ignore at our peril.' LIZ LOCHHEAD, NATIONAL POET OF SCOTLAND 'an uncommonly talented playwright'. TIME OUT 'Betts has a profound and highly original theatrical voice.' DAILY TELEGRAPH
Torben Betts read English Literature & English Language at the University of Liverpool before training and working as an actor. Works include: The Unconquered, Best New Play 2007 Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland (Tron/Traverse/Arcola/Brits-off-Broadway); A Listening Heaven, nominated for Best New Play at the 2001 TMA Awards (Edinburgh Royal Lyceum); Lie of the Land, nominated for Edinburgh Fringe First Award, 2008 (Edinburgh Pleasance/Arcola); Clockwatching (Orange Tree Theatre); The Company Man (Orange Tree Theatre); The Biggleswades (Southwark Playhouse); Five Visions of the Faithful (Edinburgh Festival); The Lunatic Queen (Riverside Studios); The Error of Their Ways (HERE Arts Center, New York); The Swing of Things (Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781840022001 |
| ISBN 10 | 1840022000 |
| Title | Betts: Plays Two |
| Author | Torben Betts |
| Series | Oberon Modern Playwrights |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2001-09-01 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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