Fr. 20.90

Dead Cats

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Zusatztext (On A Machine They're Secretly Building ) This is coolly reasoned theatre, produced by Proto-type Theater with stylish aplomb. Informationen zum Autor Andrew Westerside is co-artistic director of Proto-type Theater, a company of multi-disciplinary artists who have been making and touring original performance work in the UK, the Netherlands, Russia, China, Armenia, France, Zimbabwe and the US since 1997. Critics have called their work 'an intriguing brush with altered reality' ( The New York Times ) and 'enthralling' ( Zambezi News ). Klappentext "In this room, or in rooms like this room, they use phrases like collateral damage, like extraordinary rendition, like perception management. They cover up their dirty words with clean ones, in rooms like this room. In rooms like this room, they redact the names. In rooms like this room, language is laundered. The name of the game is spin." -- Vorwort Uncovering the truths behind the fiction, Dead Cats is the third contemporary theatre work in Proto-type's critically-acclaimed Truth to Power Project – a socially-engaged exploration of power, democracy, truth-telling, protest, privacy, conspiracy, and control. Zusammenfassung In rooms like this room people lie. Not little lies, the kinds of lies that kill people, or worse… In this room, or in rooms like this room, they use phrases like collateral damage, like extraordinary rendition, like perception management. They cover up their dirty words with clean ones, in rooms like this room. In rooms like this room, they redact the names. In rooms like this room, language is laundered. The name of the game is spin. Dead Cats is the third contemporary theatre work in Proto-type’s critically acclaimed Truth to Power Project, following on from A Machine They’re Secretly Building and The Audit – a socially-engaged exploration of power, democracy, truth-telling, protest, privacy, conspiracy, and control. It blends new writing, performance, film-making, and an obvious plant, to show – not tell – the truths behind the fictions. ...

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Authors Andrew Westerside
Publisher Methuen Drama
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 26.09.2022
 
EAN 9781350355903
ISBN 978-1-350-35590-3
No. of pages 64
Dimensions 126 mm x 194 mm x 6 mm
Series Modern Plays
Subjects Fiction > Poetry, drama

DRAMA / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / Playwriting, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Plays, Playscripts, Literary studies: plays and playwrights

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