"There's a hole running through the centre of my stomach. You must have all felt a bit awkward because you can probably see it. Sea Wall is a delicate monologue, completely devastating and beautifully powerful.Alex's story, spoken directly to the audience, begins full of clear light and smiles, as he speaks about his wife, visiting her father in the South of France, having a daughter, photography, and the bottom of the sea. His tone is n ..."
"This abridged edition is designed for schools and has been adapted for 10 actors playing all of the roles. With a running time of just 90 minutes it is suitable for performance in non-theatre spaces, with minimal technical requirements.The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time brings Mark Haddon's best-selling novel to life on stage, adapted by two-time Olivier Award-winning playwright Simon Stephens. Winner of seven Olivier Awa ..."
Punk Rock (Modern Plays) 通过 SimonStephens, Catherine Love Paperback, 112 页, 发布时间 2010 通过 Bloomsbury Methuen Drama ISBN-13: 978-1-4081-2636-3, ISBN: 1-4081-2636-2
"'Everything human beings do finishes up bad in the end. Everything good human beings ever make is built on something monstrous. Nothing lasts. We certainly won't...'Based on his experience as a teacher, Stephens describes his play as 'The History Boys on crack'. It explores the underlying tensions and potential violence in a group of affluent, articulate seventeen year old students. Contemporary and unnerving, with elements of The Catch ..."
"Pornography is Simon Stephens' stark and shattering new play that powerfully captures a portrait of a fractured, insecure Britain. Written in reaction to London crashing from the euphoria and promise at being awarded the 2012 Olympics into the chaos and reality of the 7/7 bombings, the play is composed of seven stories that serve as a countdown to the catastrophic attack on London. Each playlet focuses on a different individual dramatis ..."
"Peter See you. Alex See you later, bog-breath. Christopher See you later
monghead. Sarah Bye, Alice. Peter. Peter Bye, love. Alice Bye-bye. I hope we'll
see you soon. Sarah Yeah. I hope so too. Bye, Christopher. Christopher Bye.
Sarah See ..."
Stephens Plays 3: Harper Regan, Punk Rock, Marine Parade and On the Shore of the Wide World (Contemporary Dramatists) 通过 SimonStephens Paperback, 464 页, 发布时间 2012 通过 Methuen Drama ISBN-13: 978-1-4081-5219-5, ISBN: 1-4081-5219-3
"This third collection of plays by Simon Stephens showcases the development of one of the most exciting and impressive theatre talents of recent years. The range of plays in this volume displays a tough sensibility and a courage to confront the more unsettling challenges of our times.Harper Regan follows a woman's road trip through the heart of England in a violent and comic exploration of the moralities of sex and death. Quietly harrowi ..."
Stephens Plays 2: One Minute; Country Music; Motortown; Pornography; Sea Wall (Contemporary Dramatists) 通过 SimonStephens Paperback, 320 页, 发布时间 2009 通过 Bloomsbury Methuen Drama ISBN-13: 978-1-4081-1391-2, ISBN: 1-4081-1391-0
"This second collection of plays by Simon Stephens, winner of the 2005 Olivier Award for Best New Play for "On the Shore of the Wide World," perfectly showcases the development of one of the most exciting and impressive theatre talents of recent years. The range of plays in this volume displays a tough sensibility and a courage to confront the more unsettling challenges of our times."One Minute," first produced in 2003 and revived in Lon ..."
"Fatherland is a bold, ambitious show about contemporary fatherhood in all its complexities and contradictions. Created by Frantic Assembly's Scott Graham, Karl Hyde from Underworld and playwright Simon Stephens (Punk Rock, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time), this daring collage of words, music and movement confronts the complexities and contradictions of contemporary fatherhood.A vivid, urgent and deeply personal portrai ..."
"Created by Frantic Assembly's Scott Graham, Karl Hyde from Underworld and playwright Simon Stephens, Fatherland confronts contemporary fatherhood in all its complexities and contradictions. Daring in its compounding of words, music and movement, it is a vivid, urgent and deeply personal portrait of 21st-century England at the crossroads of past, present and future. Inspired by conversations with fathers and sons from the writers' home t ..."
"I want, one more time, to be absolutely in the moment . . .I am going to try as hard as I can to not be a human being.A series of suggestions on desire, death and time.Nuclear War is the searing result of a groundbreaking and form-defying collaboration between Simon Stephens and the choreographer and movement director Imogen Knight, developed by Actors Touring Company.Introduced by the author, this edition also features a suite of lyric ..."
"Written specifically for GCSE students by academics in the field, the Methuen Drama GCSE Student Editions provide in-depth explanatory material alongside the play texts frequently studied at Key Stage 4. Whether for use in the classroom or independent study, these editions offer a fully comprehensive and lightly glossed play text with accompanying notes specifically directed towards readers of this age, which unravel essential topics an ..."
Carmen Disruption (Modern Plays) 通过 SimonStephens Paperback, 64 页, 发布时间 2015 通过 Bloomsbury Methuen Drama ISBN-13: 978-1-4742-5160-0, ISBN: 1-4742-5160-9
"I'll gather my breath. I'll walk out of my room. I'll know exactly where I'm going to go. The voice in my head tells me exactly where to go. In the opulent grandeur of a European city, a renowned singer abandons the opera house for the truth of the streets. A gorgeous prostitute. A tough-talking taxi driver. A global trader. A teenage dreamer. Everyone's looking for something.Simon Stephens's strange and beautiful play re-imagines Bizet ..."
Song from Far Away (Modern Plays) 通过 SimonStephens Paperback, 48 页, 发布时间 2015 通过 Bloomsbury Methuen Drama ISBN-13: 978-1-4742-7735-8, ISBN: 1-4742-7735-7
"I drank three glasses of scotch and ginger ale before we'd even cleared Coney Island. I didn't want to come home. It was then that I decided to write you these letters.On a crisp winter day in New York, Willem gets the call. It's Mum. Pauli's died. Come back to Amsterdam.An unforgettable homecoming to an estranged family, a lost love, unsettling sex and an unexamined life.One of Stephens's most poetic plays to date, Song from Far Away r ..."
Modern Plays Ser. On the Shore of the Wide World 通过 SimonStephens 144 页, 发布时间 2014 通过 A&C Black ISBN-13: 978-1-4081-4222-6, ISBN: 1-4081-4222-8
"Alex and Sarah are there with Alex's friend Paul Danziger. Paul is wearing a
longsleeved Man United shirt with 'No. 6 STAM' on the back. Paul Alex said you'
ve never been to London before. Sarah I haven't, no. Paul Ifyou came down
Icould ..."
"Everything can be quantified. All worth can be quantified. Artistic worth. Human worth. Material worth. Everything. Some food is simply better than other food. Isn't it? Some clothes are better than other clothes. Aren't they?The last week of a massive international tour and rock star Paul is at the height of his fame. Everybody knows his name. Whatever he wants he can have. He can screw anybody he wants to. He can buy anything he desir ..."
Wastwater and T5 (Methuen Drama) 通过 SimonStephens Paperback, 96 页, 发布时间 2012 通过 Bloomsbury Methuen Drama ISBN-13: 978-1-4081-5486-1, ISBN: 1-4081-5486-2
""You make one decision. It stays with you. It's like the consequences of it get into your bones."Set on the edges of Heathrow Airport, Wastwater is an elliptical triptych - a snapshot of three different couples who make a choice that will define the fallout of their future. Harry is on the point of leaving England. Frieda knows she will never see him again. Lisa and Mark are on the point of a sexual betrayal that takes them into a place ..."
The Trial of Ubu (Modern Plays) 通过 SimonStephens Paperback, 96 页, 发布时间 2012 通过 Bloomsbury Academic ISBN-13: 978-1-4081-7243-8, ISBN: 1-4081-7243-7
"In The Trial of Ubu, Simon Stephens takes the grotesque and amoral megalomaniac dictator from Alfred Jarry's proto-surrealist 1896 play Ubu Roi and places him before a twenty-first century international tribunal. Set in January 2010, at the International Criminal Tribunal sitting in The Hague, it is day 436 of the trial of the dictator Ubu. Sitting before a UN constituted International Tribunal, he is charged with Crimes against Humanit ..."
"On a farm in the North East of England a family gathers. Five brothers and four generations feature in an epic play about hope, love, fear and the very end of time. A Thousand Stars Explode in the Sky is a refreshingly subtle and compassionate vision of the world on the edge of apocalypse. Within a cosmological context, the focus is on a single family, their relations with each other and their unreconciled regrets, soon to become perma ..."