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Informationen zum Autor Tony Harrison was born in Leeds in 1937. His volumes of poetry include The Loiners (winner of the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize)! Continuous! v. (broadcast on Channel 4 in 1987! winning the Royal Television Society Award)! The Gaze of the Gorgon (winner of the Whitbread Prize for Poetry) and Laureate's Block . Recognised as Britain's leading theatre and film poet! Tony Harrison has written extensively for the National Theatre! the New York Metropolitan Opera! the BBC! Channel 4! the RSC! and for unique ancient spaces in Greece! Austria and Japan. His films include Black Daisies for the Bride! which won the Prix Italia in 1994! The Shadow of Hiroshima! Prometheus and Crossings . Five volumes of plays and his Collected Film Poetry are published by Faber and his Collected Poems by Penguin. His play! Fram ! premiered at the National Theatre in 2008. Tony Harrison was awarded the PEN/Pinter Prize 2009! the European Prize for Literature 2010! the David Cohen Prize for Literature 2015! and the Premio Feronia 2016 in Rome! in special recognition of a foreign author. Tony Harrison Plays 5 includes The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus and Square Rounds - the former 'One of the most brilliantly original things the National has ever done' according to the Sunday Times , and the latter described by the Boston Globe as 'clearly a work of genius.' Zusammenfassung This fifth collection of Tony Harrison's masterly poetry for the stage contains introductions by the author to each of the plays. The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus was voted one of the best 100 plays of the twentieth century by the National Theatre Millennium Poll: 'One of the most brilliantly original things the National has ever done.' Sunday Times 'A wonderfully witty, provocative piece of theatre.' Guardian 'Harrison has created a glorious piece of total theatre.' Time Out ' Square Rounds is clearly a work of genius . . . It's so brilliant you leave the theatre in a kind of exhilarated pessimism.' Boston Globe 'It would be a stony soul who didn't salute Harrison's reckless theatrical audacity . . . A stunningly original piece of theatre.' Guardian 'Let's hand it to Tony Harrison: when it comes to taking theatrical risks, he has no rival.' The Times Tony Harrison is the recipient of the Northern Rock Foundation Writer's Award 2004. ...
