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Duncan Ward

DUNCAN WARD  

 Nationality:    British
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below is a list of Duncan Ward's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

 Beelzebum Sonata         Comedy, Irony, Satire And Other Deeper Meanings         Doorways to Dunbar         Here Lies         Janey Walk This Way         Last Night in the Life of Antonin Artaud

Beelzebum Sonata

Synopsis:
the devil tricks a fascinating young composer into suicide, played out against the backdrop of a fast deteriorating social order.

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from Stanislav Witkiewicz

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Comedy, Irony, Satire And Other Deeper Meanings

Synopsis:
written in 1822, first real surrealist play as regarded by Breton, story reflects it's writers disquiet with the state of play in German- young alcoholic scholar is in charge of a particularly thick child, he decides to the mentally deficient child off as a genius and does so with startlingly rewards, however the proceedings are clouded over by his unrequited love of a fair young maiden, both events are scandalous and provocative. Grabbe glanced against a window into the twentieth century and has strangely been neglected as one of it's great writers!

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from Christian Grabbe

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Doorways to Dunbar

Synopsis:
absurd piece about a group of idlers who concoct an amusing past time by employing a private detective to search in vain for the ultra ego of a wealthy spinster, who happens to have delusions of grandeur. a ridiculous work to be found on the web site in due course.

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-    1999

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Absurd Work Absurd

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Here Lies

Synopsis:
an adaptation of Orpheus and Eurydices set against the backdrop of the ideology and practise of the italian futurists

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-    2006

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Janey Walk This Way

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-    2007

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Last Night in the Life of Antonin Artaud

Synopsis:
a masterful adaptation of Artaud's letters into the imagined last night he spent alive, in a hellish hallucination. see independent review 6th june 2000 dominic cavendish theatre critic. time out choice of the week.

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adapted writings of Antonin Artaud, music Janusz Podrazik

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Chopra Factory, London    2000

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