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WILLIAM LYONS
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William Lyons, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Trinity College, Dublin is a playwright who has spent much of his life as a student or teacher of philosophy in many countries. He is interested in 'Theatre of thought' or drama that brings challenging ideas to the stage. His play Wittgenstein-the Crooked Roads Won the START Chapbooks Award 2005 and was presented at Riverside Studios in London in 2011. Its companion piece, the Fir Tree and the Ivy, won the eamon Keane Full Length Play Award in 2006 and has been translated into Italian as L'edera e Mbete.
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Fir Tree and the Ivy, The Socrates and His Clouds Wittgenstein-the Crooked RoadsFir Tree and the Ivy, The
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won the eamon Keane Full Length Play Award in 2006
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Top of PageSocrates and His Clouds
Strepsiades lives in Greece. He has debt. A lot of debt. And thats because his son, Phiddy, has a penchant for betting and isnt so keen on working. At a loss, Streps has an idea: Phiddy can go to Socrates' Academy and learn how to talk himself out of trouble! Job done! What could possibly go wrong? Socrates and His Clouds is a serio-comic drama about the fragility of morality, the hazards of education and the burdens of being a teacher.
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the play was workshopped with four actors over two days at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in January 2012 with the aim of exploring the stylistic language demanded by the text. the cartoon strip style as well as the identity of the Chorus as buskers emerged out of this R&D period, as well as a new draft of the play. A second phase of development arose out of Anne Cattaneo, Dramaturg of the Lincoln Center and one of the most influential figures in the New York new writing scene, choosing the piece as a comedy play for exploration in the Lincoln Center Directors Lab in which Melina theocharidou participated in July 2012. Melina worked with three actors on the opening scene of the play, which she presented on the Mitzi stage of Lincoln Center in front of an audience of 70 directors from around the globe.
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Meddlers Theatre Company
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Oberon Books (2013) >>> 978-1783190065
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Top of PageWittgenstein-the Crooked Roads
Difficult to know and impossible to forget, Ludwig Wittgenstein is remembered as the greatest philosopher of the twentieth century. He published only one book in his lifetime - a masterpiece that moulded the evolution of philosophy and baffled his teachers. Spanning most of his life, from his early encounters with Bertrand Russell in Cambridge to a final trip to New York via the Russian Front, Wittgenstein: The Crooked Roads tracks the journeys of a tortured soul. - See more at: http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/wittgenstein-9781474218412/#sthash.rNWDvmEI.dpuf
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Won the START Chapbooks Award 2005
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Riverside Studios, Crisp Road, London W6 9RL >>> 19 Apr 2011
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Bloomsbury Methuen Drama 2015 978-1474218412
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