Mr Howard Brenton: 6 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,...
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 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...
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...
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...