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CHRIS RYAN
Nationality: Australian
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Chris Ryan's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates
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Thyestes Wild Duck, TheThyestes
If you mess with the Ancient Greeks, beware a little blood. In the charnel house of Greek legend one room is forever reserved for that most ferocious of tales - Thyestes, the deposed king whose sons were slaughtered and served as a feast to their unwitting father. Treating mythological atrocity as contemporary reality, fast-track director Simon Stone retells this Greco-Roman epic as a series of domestic scenes exploring the mundanity of violence. Terrifyingly observed, savagely comic and ultimately heartrending, Thyestes is a modern journey through the darkest of legends.
Notes:
Original Playwright - Seneca. Adapted by by Simon Stone, Thomas Henning, Chris Ryan And Mark Winter
1st Produced:
(Malthouse Theatre) Tower Theatre, Southbank, VIC 16 Sep 2010
Organisations:
Hayloft Project
1st Published:
Currency Press, Australia (2012) >>> 978-0-86819-927-6
Music:
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piece 90 min
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Male: 3 Female: - Other: doubling
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Synopsis:
Hjalmar Ekdal's Father was rich until scandal cast the family into poverty. Now he lives in a tiny flat with his father, his wife Gina, and his daughter Hedvig. And a duck. And there's about to be a new member of the household who could just shatter the little world Hjalmar has built around himself. A bittersweet portrait of family dysfunction, deception and denial in a radical reworking of an Ibsen classic.
Notes:
Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen. Written by Simon Stone with Chris Ryan
1st Produced:
Organisations:
Griffin Theatre Company
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Adaptation
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