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Jehane Markham

JEHANE MARKHAM

  
Nationality:    British
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Jehane Markham's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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below is a list of Jehane Markham's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Birth Of Pleasure, The         Hermes         Nina

Birth Of Pleasure, The

Synopsis:
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1st Produced:
Rosemary Branch, London    1997

Organisations:
Wonderful Beast

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
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Hermes

Synopsis:
Strange show this. It seems nothing more than a children's musical, telling the story of how Hermes earned his place among the Olympian gods by stealing his brother Apollo's cattle. Yet, you can't shake off the feeling that Jehane Markham's libretto is striving for something rather more. lts there in the beautiful, mysterious figure of Hecate, the goddess of witchcraft, who presides over proceedings to no obvious purpose. It's there in the jazz bar setting, which adds a similarly indefinable frisson. It's there too in the constant asides to the main action, when Zeus and Hera argue about the former's various affairs. these references to other myths do, in fact, echo the classical poems on which Markham has based her narrative. Given extended development, however, they slow down a story which already has little going for it. Markham strives to find the depths in this myth, but, expressed in endless badly rhymed couplets, her attempts at psychological complexity - Hermes' longing for recognition, his fraternal jealousy - come across as jejune. It's not helped by a ridiculous performance from Nick Ingram who makes Hermes a brash, shouty child to the detriment of his singing and his audience appeal. Yet all of this is made more pleasant by Pete Letanka's score. Performed with lyrical cool by a jazz trio in the corner, studded with some lovely choral sections, it remains an aural treat even if it rarely helps along the Drama. A strange show, as I said, but not altogether unpleasant.
Kieron Quirke, Time Out London

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1st Produced:
Rosemary Branch, London    2006

Organisations:
Rough Winds Productions

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
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Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Nina

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
eM, 1978   -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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