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COLIN CHAMBERS
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Colin Chambers is Emeritus Professor of Drama at Kingston University. Colin was Literary Manager of the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1981 to 1997, and has also been a journalist and theatre critic. He is co-author with Richard Nelson of Kenneth's First Play and Tynan (both Royal Shakespeare Company), and he selected and edited for performance Three Farces by John Maddison Morton, which were produced at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond. As well as editing the Continuum Companion to Twentieth Century Theatre, Colin has written extensively on the theatre including Other Spaces: New Writing and the RSC, Playwrights' Progress (with Michael Prior), The Story of Unity Theatre, Peggy: The Life of Margaret Ramsay, Play Agent (winner of the inaugural Theatre Book Prize), Inside the Royal Shakespeare Company, Here We Stand: Politics, Performers and Performance Paul Robeson, Isadora Duncan and Charlie Chaplin and Black and Asian Theatre in Britain: A History.
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Kenneth's First Play Treasure TynanKenneth's First Play
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Written for 9 to 14-year-olds, this play is an imaginative journey into the history of Western theatre, ancient Greeks, a day in Shakespeare's theatre, and an encounter with a play by anton Chekhov. Included with the text are the author's commentary and notes about the script and its production.
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written by Richard Nelson And Colin Chambers.
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Oh, it's a funny sensation, having money in your pocket, I can tell you. . .Money warms you. If you knew how warm and safe I feel. Like a new creature in a new skin. re for the first time in the UK - Treasure by David Pinski. Tille is the poor gravedigger's daughter, with nothing in the world except a head full of dreams. Things look set to stay that way, until the day her brother returns from the graveyard with a pile of gold coins, and Tille is faced with a choice. She can hand in the money and go back to a life of drudgery, or she can use it to turn the world upside down. As the village community disintegrates into chaos and descends on the cemetery in search of gold, Tille and her family must use all their wits to stay one step ahead of those who want their share of the treasure. A timeless fable that digs down into the depths of our folly and greed and, in the midst of the chaos, celebrates one woman's ingenuity.
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Original Playwright - David Pinski, adaptation by Colin Chambers, from a translation by Ludwig Lewisohn. Treasure, or Der Oytser, is a comic masterpiece of Yiddish theatre. Written in 1906 and first performed in 1912, it remained popular in the Yiddish repertoire until the 1940s: most notably, Max Reinhardt's production in Germany in 1919, an English-language version on Broadway in 1920, as well as a production staged in the Vilna Ghetto in 1943.
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Male: 19 Female: 5 Other: 3 boys
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Synopsis:
Based on the diaries of the theatre critic and writer Kenneth Tynan. Written over the last ten years of Tynan's life, these painfully honest and revealing diaries create a portrait of one of the most interesting and complex men of our time. Literary Manager of the National theatre under Olivier, dominant theatre critic, journalist, impresario of Oh Calcutta!, Kenneth Tynan was a profound, original and witty observer of his world. and never was he more ruthless than when he turned his sights upon himself.
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adapted by Richard Nelson with Colin Chambers from the book by John Lair
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Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK >>>
03 Oct 2004
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RSC New Works Festival
1st Published:
Faber and Faber, London, 2004
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Male: 1 Female: - Other: -
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