Malcolm Theiner (8 results)

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: New. In English.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Fire Babies: Workshop Theatre Two This Workshop Theatre series was especially commissioned as a Resource for Theatre-in-Education Projects, with each play offering expressive opportunities for developing skills without the strictures of set rules or standard practices. The Fire Babies are eye-witnesses who, uninvited, appear upon an empty stage in order to give testimony of their not-knowing what once they did, or only pretended to have done, or only imagined they were once accused of having done. They present themselves in the form of a contemporary burlesque: a two-act series of sixty-two 'turns' (as for a cabaret-revue or variety-show), each 'turn' focusing on themes of psychology and violence in a world obsessed with war - which is both an ancient and a modern 'world' and which also serves as a single stage-of-experience whose mysteries are as they ever were: unfathomable and absurd. Their absurdity is that of an infantile denial of all responsibility, plus a comprehensive refusal to acknowledge all consequences of their actions and also the inevitable outcomes: this situation is for the Fire Babies a 'default-condition' - that of perpetually re-rehearsing and re-playing their playground games, reiterating their ancient mythology, and ritualizing all their uncanny behaviours: these include a cheerful assortment of childish ring-dances and an eternity of let's-pretend and make-believe. Forever, they are to remain Infants in Infancy, although self-evidently they are Adults in Adultery. Such is their absurd predicament: a closed impasse offering no resolution, only a perpetual recurrence of itself. L.J. Carr, General Editor This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Fire Babies: Workshop Theatre Two This Workshop Theatre series was especially commissioned as a Resource for Theatre-in-Education Projects, with each play offering expressive opportunities for developing skills without the strictures of set rules or standard practices. The Fire Babies are eye-witnesses who, uninvited, appear upon an empty stage in order to give testimony of their not-knowing what once they did, or only pretended to have done, or only imagined they were once accused of having done. They present themselves in the form of a contemporary burlesque: a two-act series of sixty-two 'turns' (as for a cabaret-revue or variety-show), each 'turn' focusing on themes of psychology and violence in a world obsessed with war - which is both an ancient and a modern 'world' and which also serves as a single stage-of-experience whose mysteries are as they ever were: unfathomable and absurd. Their absurdity is that of an infantile denial of all responsibility, plus a comprehensive refusal to acknowledge all consequences of their actions and also the inevitable outcomes: this situation is for the Fire Babies a 'default-condition' - that of perpetually re-rehearsing and re-playing their playground games, reiterating their ancient mythology, and ritualizing all their uncanny behaviours: these include a cheerful assortment of childish ring-dances and an eternity of let's-pretend and make-believe. Forever, they are to remain Infants in Infancy, although self-evidently they are Adults in Adultery. Such is their absurd predicament: a closed impasse offering no resolution, only a perpetual recurrence of itself. L.J. Carr, General Editor This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…