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Bezig met laden... Every Good Boy Deserves Favour and Professional Foul (1978)door Tom Stoppard
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. The first gets four stars, the second maybe three. Funny to read, but doesn't really stick in your memory the way, for example, Harold Pinter's The Homecoming, which I read in the same college class, does. ( ) This 70-minute one act play is a truly unique collaboration between playwright Tom Stoppard and composer Andre Previn. It is a play for Actors and Symphony Orchestra that calls for musicians on stage, interacting with the actors and providing live music that at times slips into the background, at other times takes center stage, and communicates insights into the characters thoughts, personalities, and states of mind. The story is fairly simple. It is set in the Soviet Union in an era when political dissidents were deemed insane and confined to asylums with the truly crazy people. Two people with identical names share a cell - one is really crazy (he plays triangle in an imaginary orchestra), the other has been institutionalized because he claims the government is throwing dissidents into insane asylums. Unfortunately, it is the kind of work which only works in a live performance. Reading the script or listening to a recording of the soundtrack doesn't begin to do it justice. If you should ever have the opportunity to see a rare live performance, it's definitely worth your while. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Every Good Boy Deserves Favour A dissident is locked up in an asylum. If he accepts that he was ill and has been cured, he will be released. He refuses. Sharing his cell is a real lunatic who believes himself to be surrounded by an orchestra. As the dissident's son begs his father to free himself with a lie, Tom Stoppard's darkly funny and provocative play asks if denying the truth is a price worth paying for liberty. Every Good Boy premiered at the Festival Hall, London, in July 1977. It was revived at the National Theatre, London, in January 2009. Professional Foul 'Professor Anderson, a somewhat devious academic, went to Prague to deliver a lecture on "Ethical Facts in Ethical Fiction" and to see a football match. Politics intruded when a former pupil of Anderson begged him to smuggle out a thesis arguing that "the ethics of the State can only be the ethics of the individual writ large" . . . Mr Stoppard's BBC television debut was sheer delight.' - Richard Last, Daily Telegraph 'Plays which enhance civilization itself, which is what this does, are not seen once and laid away.' - Bernard Levin, Sunday Times Professional Foul was first shown on BBC TV in September 1977. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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