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Teevan: Two Plays

By: Colin Teevan

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Includes the plays The Big Sea and Vinegar and Brown Paper The Big Sea is based on the French Medieval Mardi Gras play Le Bataille de Charnau contre Caresme. Christophe, Caresme and Charnau are on a cancer ward. To pass the time they play games. The line between game and reality starts to blur and soon they find themselves on a journey into the unknown: Columbus's journey to the New World. In Vinegar and Brown Paper Jill is an artist recently returned to Dublin and Jack is her stand-up comedian boyfriend. As Jill tries to reconcile herself to her past through her work, Jack's career starts to take off. The play charts the collapse of a relationship through soap operas, football, the Dutch Masters and Christ's walk to Calvary. It was first produced by the Abbey Theatre, Dublin.

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1786822288

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9781786822284

The Bee

By: Hideki Noda,Colin Teevan

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The Bee

By: Hideki Noda,Colin Teevan

One evening, Mr Ido arrives home from work to find his house surrounded by police and TV cameras. Inside, his wife and child are being held hostage by an escaped murderer. An otherwise normal day in an otherwise comfortable life is not ending how it should. But rather than play the victim and accept this terrible fate, Ido decides to take control and embarks upon an extraordinary mission of revenge. Set in Tokyo in 1974, this dark and unconventional satire asks what happens when the victim becomes the aggressor, the weak become powerful and the watcher becomes the watched.

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1849433232

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The Kingdom

By: Colin Teevan

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The Kingdom

By: Colin Teevan

“I was never part of any gang that killed a man” Three Irishmen. Digging. Telling tales to put down the day. But as they dig down, long buried secrets begin to emerge and the story they tell is as dark as the earth itself. It’s a tale full of rich and striking characters which vividly captures life as an Irish navvy in the last century - a world of immigration, violence, sex, triumph and, ultimately, tragedy. Rooted in the dramas of ancient Greece, The Kingdom, the latest play by acclaimed playwright Colin Teevan is both haunting and lyrical.

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184943591X

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The Diver

By: Hideki Noda,Colin Teevan

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The Diver

By: Hideki Noda,Colin Teevan

Drawing on the themes of cruelty, imperialism and betrayal, Hideki Noda and Colin Teevan's new play, The Diver, ingeniously links the ancient Japanese Tales of Genji with a Noh theatre play and a contemporary murder. In a production at Soho Theatre award-winning actress Kathryn Hunter rejoined legendary Japanese director Hideki Noda and the team behind Soho/Tokyo hit play The Bee for this physical and inventive collaboration. The Diver opened at the Soho Theatre in June 2008.

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1849439656

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The Walls

By: Colin Teevan

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The Walls

By: Colin Teevan

Dublin. The night before Christmas and Mrs and Mrs Walls are preparing for the arrival of their son Joseph and his new bride, Mary, from London. "George Bernard Shaw wrote: 'I have not yet found real homes except in very stupid families to whom a house is a world.' The tragedy was when, as in his own family - or Stella's in The Walls - intelligent people attempt to make a house their world. Shaw turned his own childhood tragedy into comedy but the comedy retained - as does Colin Teevan's - sharp pathos of emotions and ambitions thwarted and lonely lives unfulfilled" (Clare Boylan) The Walls was premiered as part of the RNT's Springboards season, 2001.

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178682227X

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Monkey!

By: Colin Teevan

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Monkey!

By: Colin Teevan

The tale of the roguish Monkey and his exploits on a fabulous journey to India is one of the most popular classics in Asian literature. Monkey has been imprisoned in a mountain because of the chaos he has wrought in heaven. To be redeemed, he must guide the Buddhist monk Tripitaka from China, through the Himalayas, on a mystical quest in search of sacred scriptures. Helped by two friends, Pigsy and Sandy, he encounters demons, spirits, dragons and gods on a riotous road trip to enlightenment. With its mix of energetic kung-fu action, mischievous hero and cast of fantastically colourful characters Monkey! is sure to leave audiences as thrilled and delighted as last year's sell-out success The Three Musketeers. Monkey! is an adventure to enchant everyone aged seven and above.

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1849436304

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Teevan: Two Plays

By: Colin Teevan

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Teevan: Two Plays

By: Colin Teevan

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The Seven Pomegranate Seeds

By: Colin Teevan

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The Seven Pomegranate Seeds

By: Colin Teevan

Seven contemporary stories grounded in prominent, mythical origins. Persephone, Hypsipyle, Medea, Alcestis, Phaedra, Creusa and Demeter: the women of Euripides' plays are reimagined as people of today in an unexpected fusion of celebrity, inappropriate desires, historical police investigations and missing children. A severed maternal bond threads each story together, charting a journey through rage and redemption, towards a compelling conclusion. This revised edition of Colin Teevan's haunting monologue cycle was published to coincide with a new production at Rose Theatre, Kingston, in November 2021.

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1350301183

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Alcmaeon in Corinth

By: Colin Teevan

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Alcmaeon in Corinth

By: Colin Teevan

Based on 20 previously untranslated fragments, this is a reconstruction of Euripides lost tragic comedy, Alcmaeon in Corinth, the third part of his final trilogy, with Bacchai and Iphigeneia in Aulis. Alcmaeon, having killed his mother, is pursued by the furies, his madness taking the form of satyriasis. When he unwittingly finds himself in bed with his daughter, he must face his children's fury. Alcmaeon in Corinth was commissioned by The Academy at Live Theatre, Newcastle, and was performed there in September 2004.

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1786822261

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Iph

By: Euripides

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Iph

By: Euripides

Since it premiered in Athens in 405 BC alongside Bacchai, Euripides' Iphigeneia in Aulis has been one of the most performed and re-imagined of Ancient Greek Tragedies. The story of how Iphigeneia, the daughter of Agamemnon, agrees to her own sacrifice so that the Greeks might sail to Troy has been re-interpreted in drama, opera and film by amongst others Racine, Gluck, Goethe and Cacoyannis. This translation and adaptation, which availed of the most recent textual scholarship of the source text, strips the piece down to its Euripidean essentials. Colin Teevan's version, Iph..., was first performed at The Lyric Theatre, Belfast in 1999 and since on BBC Radio.

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Oberon Books

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1840023031

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Amazonia

By: Colin Teevan

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Amazonia

By: Colin Teevan

The village of Todos Os Santos is under threat from developers who want to clear the village and the forest for farmland. Meanwhile, the village bull won't dance the traditional bumba meu boi and the pregnant Catarina has developed a taste for impossible foods that her husband Francisco must get for her. Can the spirits of the forest help our heroes save their environment, their way of life, and themselves? Fantasy and reality dance through this spectacular Amazonian adventure, inspired by the life and politics of Brazilian folk hero Chico Mendes. Amazonia ran at the Young Vic Theatre, London in the Winter 2008-2009.

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1840028955

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How Many Miles to Basra?

By: Colin Teevan

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How Many Miles to Basra?

By: Colin Teevan

Southern Iraq, April 2003. Four soldiers, a journalist and their Iraqi translator set off on an unauthorised journey deep into the Iraqi countryside in a disastrous attempt to make amends for the deaths of some local men at a vehicle checkpoint. Developed from Teevan'shighly acclaimed BBC Radio 3 play, How Many Miles to Basra? is a superb examination of how definitions of truth and responsibility become blurred in times of war - not just in the armed forces and political arena, but in the media too. How Many Miles to Basra? was performed at the West Yorkshire Playhouse (Leeds) in September 2006.

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1783193735

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Missing Persons

Four Tragedies and Roy Keane

By: Colin Teevan

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Missing Persons

Four Tragedies and Roy Keane

By: Colin Teevan

Includes the monologues The Bull, The One Within, Somedays, The Last word and The Roykeaneiad A father denied access to his children, a footballer deserting his team, a terrorist lost in the politics of peacetime. Five monologues in the voices of contemporary men, inspired by the heroes and heroines of classical myths.

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The Diver

By: Hideki Noda,Colin Teevan

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The Diver

By: Hideki Noda,Colin Teevan

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Amazonia

By: Colin Teevan

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1786822075

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Alcmaeon in Corinth

By: Colin Teevan

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The Walls

By: Colin Teevan

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The Kingdom

By: Colin Teevan

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The Kingdom

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Missing Persons

Four Tragedies and Roy Keane

By: Colin Teevan

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Four Tragedies and Roy Keane

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The Seven Pomegranate Seeds

By: Colin Teevan

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How Many Miles to Basra?

By: Colin Teevan

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Monkey!

By: Colin Teevan

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Monkey!

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The Bee

By: Hideki Noda,Colin Teevan

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The Bee

By: Hideki Noda,Colin Teevan

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Inside the Royal Shakespeare Company

Creativity and the Institution

By: Colin Chambers

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Inside the Royal Shakespeare Company

Creativity and the Institution

By: Colin Chambers

This is the inside story of the Royal Shakespeare Company - a running historical critique of a major national institution and its location within British culture, as related by a writer who is uniquely placed to tell the tale. It describes what happened to a radical theatrical vision and explores British society's inability to sustain that vision. Spanning four decades and four artistic directors, Inside the Royal Shakespeare Company is a multi-layered chronicle that traces the company's history, offers investigation into its working methods, its repertoire, its people and its politics, and considers what the future holds for this bastion of high culture now in crisis. Inside the Royal Shakespeare Company is compelling reading for anyone who wishes to explore behind the scenes and consider the changing role of theatre in modern cultural life. It offers a timely analysis of the fight for creative expression within any artistic or cultural organisation, and a vital document of our times.

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Routledge

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1134616317

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Iph--

After Euripides' Iphigeneia in Aulis

By: Colin Teevan

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Iph--

After Euripides' Iphigeneia in Aulis

By: Colin Teevan

An Irish adaptation of Euripides' Ancient Greek tragedy about the Trojan War, Iphigeneia in Aulis. Agamemnon has a stark choice - should he sacrifice his daughter, Iphigeneia, to the gods in return for a fair wind for his fleet, or should he place paternal love over the interests of the state?

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1854594397

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Kafka's Monkey

By: Franz Kafka

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Kafka's Monkey

By: Franz Kafka

‘Esteemed members of the Academy! You have done me the great honour of inviting me to give you an account of my former life as an ape.’ Imprisoned in a cage and desperate to escape, Kafka's monkey reveals his journey to become a walking, talking, spitting, smoking, hard-drinking man of the stage. Based on the short story A Report to an Academy by Franz Kafka, this new adaptation is by acclaimed writer Colin Teevan. Kafka's Monkey was performed to critical acclaim at the Young Vic Theatre in Spring 2009, and will return from the 19th May to 11th June 2011.

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1849436266

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Doctor Faustus

By: Christopher Marlowe

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Doctor Faustus

By: Christopher Marlowe

Faustus’s restless quest for knowledge and his insatiable desire for notoriety drive him to make a pact with the devil in return for the power to perform the black arts. The life-changing decision propels him into a heady, celebrity-obsessed world, as magician and illusionist to the rich and famous. Quenching sexual desires as his power grows, he must question whether the price was worth paying. This new adaptation combines Marlowe’s original acts with a re-imagining by Colin Teevan. Firmly placing this classic story within a present context, the universal truths held in the 400-year-old cautionary tale resonate powerfully with the greed of today’s consumer-led society.

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