Storey Plays: 1
by David Storey

Name: Storey Plays: 1
Brand: David Storey
SKU: 9780413673503
Rating: 4 (4 reviews)

Storey Plays: 1 Book Cover — Storey Plays: 1 Cover

Highlights

Female

Male

Interior Set British

Why we like it

""Storey Plays: 1" presents versatile works that invite creative staging in non-traditional venues."

From: Scripts for Non-Traditional Spaces

Synopsis

"David Storey is a writer who genuinely extends the territory of drama" (Guardian)

The Contractor: "A subtle and poetic parable about the nature and joy of skilled work, the meaning of community and the effect of its loss" (Observer); Home: "about the solitude and dislocation of madness and...the decline of Britain itself...part of the play's appeal is that Storey leaves it to us to draw our own conclusions...a play that contains within itself the still, sad music of humanity."

(Guardian); Stages: "...an elegy for lost times and places, an obituary that has been free-associated by the corpse-to-be...Storey once said that a play 'lives almost in the measure that it escapes and refuses definition'.

He has always been a writer who hints rather than states, let alone hectors."

(The Times); Caring, a companion piece to Stages, reflects a reassessment and renegotiation of the conflict between life and art.

Press Reviews

"David Storey's starkly observed portrait of an artist in extremis leaves us as close to the core of this eternal enigma as almost anything I have hitherto seen on any stage. He delivers a painful portrait some suggest a self portrait of a man at the very edge of his creative and emotional rationale, a man who, at the very height of his fame as a painter and writer, finds himself going slowly mad.... The intrinsic beauty of the of the writing, of the whole production, is that he takes us step by step with him on this slow descent among the ghosts of his own past."
— London Daily Mail