Terminus and Other Plays

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Daniel Keene Terminus and Other Plays
Search for a word or phrase in this book … Biographical note: Daniel Keene has written for the theatre since 1979. His work has been performed throughout Australia and in France, Belgium, Switzerland, The United States, Poland and China. He has won the Victorian Premier’s Prize for Drama (twice), the South Australian Premier’s Prize for Best Play and the New South Wales Premier’s Prize for Best Play (twice). He has also been awarded the Kenneth Myer Medallion for his contribution to the performing arts. In France his work has been performed at Scène Nationale Toulouse, L’Hippodrome (Scène Nationale Douai), Theatre du Merlan (Scène Nationale Marseille), The Avignon Festival and in Paris at Theatre de la Commune and Theatre de la Ville. BIC Basic EAN13: 9781876857189 ISBN-10: 1876857188 ISBN-13: 9781876857189 Author: Daniel Keene Title: Terminus and Other Plays Series: Salt Modern Drama Product class: BC Language: eng Audience: General/trade BIC subject category: CTGH Publisher: Salt Publishing Pub date: 01-Jul-03 Extent: 280pp Height: 216 mm Width: 140 mm Thickness: 16 mm Weight: 420 gms Supplier: Gardners Books Supplier: Ingram Book Group Supplier: Inbooks (James Bennett) Availability: IP Price: GBP 14.99 Price: USD 21.95 Rights: World	See larger image PAPERBACK 20% off at the UK Bookstore! ~~£14.99~~ £11.99 20% off at the US Bookstore! ~~$21.95~~ $17.56	Short description/annotation: The plays in this major selection of Daniel Keene’s work represent a cross-section of his concerns and styles. Existing far outside the accepted tropes of Australian theatre writing, his work is a striking example of the possibilties open to a questioning mind driven towards the troubled edges of experience. Main description: This major selection of works for the theatre offers a unique insight into the chaotic, violent, compassionate and unpredictable world created by Daniel Keene. Written as much for the page as for the stage, these plays and monologues challenge accepted notions of good and evil, cause and effect; they are a generously offensive assault, an argument of feeling. These plays are poems written for the theatre, as much a celebration of the theatre’s worth as a challenge to its prevailing values. As well as an extremely various selection of shorter plays, which range from the elliptical Beckettian unease of The Eyes to the gently sinister fable of death in The Telling, this collection includes one of Keene’s most significant works to date, Terminus. Described in Paris Voice as “Keene’s darkest picture yet of the consequences of social alienation” which nevertheless offers “redemptive possibilities in both fiction and reality”, Terminus has been widely produced in major French theatres, garnering enthusiastic critical acclaim. Works such as The Falling Man, a monologue by an immigrant worker who has died in an accident while working on an archeological dig on Seneca’s grave, reveal more clearly the philosophical and political genesis of all Keene’s work. The Fire Testament, a horrific vision of a post-nuclear world written in a poetically debased English, shows how inventive and skilled Keene’s language can be. But all the plays, without exception, generate an emotional potency which stems from Keene’s unwavering commitment to the humanity of his characters and his deep belief in the humanising possibility of theatre. Table of contents: The Telling Dog Scissors, Paper, Rock The Eyes The Falling Man River The Fire Testament Terminus View excerpt as PDF: Click here to view a sample (60 KB) Excerpt from book: