Howard Brenton: 20 books
Brenton Plays: 2
The Romans in Britain; Thirteenth Night; The Genius; Bloody Poetry; Greenland
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
Howard Brenton is one of Britain's best-known and most controversial dramatists
The Romans in Britain was the play that brought calls to bring back censorship when it was first staged at the National in 1980. It conjures up "an era that is culturally as well as historically remote which...
by Mr Howard Brenton, Mr David Hare
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
The press and politicians. A delicate relationship. Too close, and danger ensues. Too far apart, and democracy itself cannot function.
Pravda (which means "truth") is a satire written at the height of Thatcherism when huge political changes were afoot. The play essentially studies,...
by Howard Brenton
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
A gripping historical drama that dramatises a crucial moment of English history. Premiered at Hampstead Theatre in October 2012.
December 1648. The Army has occupied London. Parliament votes not to put the imprisoned king on trial, so the Army moves against Westminster in the first and only...
by August Strindberg, Howard Brenton
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
Midsummer's Eve, Sweden. A night when the sun doesn't set. A night of drinking and dancing. A night to break the rules.
When Julie finds herself alone on her father's estate, she throws caution to the wind and gate-crashes the servants' party. In the sultry heat of that long, light night, she...
by Howard Brenton
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
A timely play based on the true story of an imprisoned Nobel Laureate.
On 3 April 2011, as he was boarding a flight to Taipei, the Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei was arrested at Beijing Airport. Advised merely that his travel "could damage state security", he was escorted to a van by officials...
by Georg Buchner, Mr Howard Brenton
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
This is your rhetoric translated. These wretches, these executioners, the guillotine are your speeches come to life. You have built your doctrines out of human heads... Why should an event that transforms the whole of humanity not advance through blood?
1794: the French Revolution reaches its...
National Theatre Connections 2013
The Guffin; Mobile Phone Show; What Are They Like?; We Lost Elijah; I'm Spilling My Heart Out Here; Tomorrow I'll Be Happy; Soundclash; Don't Feed the Animals; Ailie and the Alien; Forty-Five Minutes
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
Drawing together the work of ten leading playwrights – a mixture of established and current writers – National Theatre Connections 2013 offers young performers between the ages of thirteen and nineteen everywhere an engaging selection of plays to perform, read or study.
Each play is specifically...
by Howard Brenton
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
A celebration of a great English heroine, Anne Boleyn dramatises the life and legacy of Henry VIII's notorious second wife, who helped change the course of the nation's history. Premiered at Shakespeare's Globe in 2010.
Best New Play, Whatsonstage.com Awards
Traditionally seen as either...
by Howard Brenton
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
Abandoning theatre, living a life of squalid splendour, August Strindberg practises alchemy. In his hotel room, he attempts to make gold by finding the philosopher’s stone, the secret of creation. As his grasp on reality weakens, his first two wives visit him to bring him to his senses. But their...
by Howard Brenton
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2019
About to be fired from her cleaning job for stealing a volume of Euripides, Jude turns her employer's outrage to shock by translating the ancient Greek on the spot. The employer, a Classics teacher, knows great talent when she sees it and the encounter kick-starts Jude's lifelong ambition to study...
by Howard Brenton
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
A gripping new version of Strindberg's masterly, darkly hilarious depiction of the struggles and strains of marriage.
Meet Edgar and Alice. Married for over thirty years, theirs is a relationship of explosive mutual loathing. Strindberg's tale paints a compulsive and bitterly funny portrait...
by Mr Howard Brenton
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
First staged at London's National Theatre in 1980, having been commissioned by Peter Hall, The Romans in Britain contrasts Julius Caesar's Roman invasion of Celtic Britain with the Saxon invasion of Romano-Celtic Britain, and finally Britain's involvement in Northern Ireland during The Troubles of...
by Howard Brenton
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
A vivid telling of the chaotic story of the partition that shaped the modern world.
London, 1947. Summoned by the Prime Minister from the court where he is presiding judge, Cyril Radcliffe is given an unlikely mission. He is to travel to India, a country he has never visited, and, with limited...
Plays For The Poor Theatre
The Saliva Milkshake; Christie in Love; Heads; Skinny Spew; Gum and Goo
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
These five short plays date from Brenton's early involvement in such 'shoestring' groups as Portable Theatre. They are deliberately intended for the 'poor theatre' - as relevant today as when they were first written - since each play requires a small cast and minimal set, yet yields maximum theatricality.
Christie...
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