Publisher:
Bloomsbury, London
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
'Poetry or Bust' is about a 19th century Yorkshire woolsorter and poet John Nicholson, who wrote about the exploited children in the factories of Leeds and Bradford, then was bribed by attention and money to become more pastoral and pleasing to his...
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'Poetry or Bust' is about a 19th century Yorkshire woolsorter and poet John Nicholson, who wrote about the exploited children in the factories of Leeds and Bradford, then was bribed by attention and money to become more pastoral and pleasing to his aristocratic patrons. The play was first performed at Salts Mill, Saltaire, in September 1993.
Publisher:
Bloomsbury, London
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Specifically written to be set in the remains of Marcus Aurelius's Roman stadium at Carnuntum, 40 kilometres outside Vienna, the verse play 'The Kaisers of Carnuntum' was to have only two performances, in the summer of 1995. The extravagant logistics...
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Specifically written to be set in the remains of Marcus Aurelius's Roman stadium at Carnuntum, 40 kilometres outside Vienna, the verse play 'The Kaisers of Carnuntum' was to have only two performances, in the summer of 1995. The extravagant logistics of the work - which required real lions, tigers and bears - were so complicated that the first time it could be put together was at the dress rehearsal the evening before the first performance. The play neatly encapsulates much of Harrison's view of life and art. It was set in the classical world and drew on it to expose the brutality of the Romans as opposed to Harrison's beloved Greeks.
Publisher:
Bloomsbury, London
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
'The Labourers of Herakles', a short verse drama based on the earliest surviving fragments of Greek tragedy by Phrynichos, was first performed on an excavated site intended for the New Theatre of the European Cultural Centre of Delphi, Greece, in...
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'The Labourers of Herakles', a short verse drama based on the earliest surviving fragments of Greek tragedy by Phrynichos, was first performed on an excavated site intended for the New Theatre of the European Cultural Centre of Delphi, Greece, in August 1995.
