For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When The Hue Gets Too Heavy

Download or read book For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When The Hue Gets Too Heavy written by Ryan Calais Cameron and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-04-03 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nominated for Best New Play at the 2023 Olivier Awards I found a king in me and now I love you I found a king in you and now I love me Father figures and fashion tips. Lost loves and jollof rice. African empires and illicit sex. Good days and bad days. Six young Black men meet for group therapy, and let their hearts - and imaginations - run wild. Inspired by Ntozake Shange's essential work For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow is Enuf, For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When The Hue Gets Too Heavy is a profound and playful work, co-commissioned by Boundless Theatre, from multi-award-winning company Nouveau Riche and playwright Ryan Calais Cameron. For Black Boys... gained critical acclaim for the world premiere in October 2021 at New Diorama Theatre, before successfully transferring to London's Royal Court Theatre in March 2022. This edition was published to coincide with the second West End production at the Garrick Theatre in March 2024.

Download or read book For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Hue Gets Too Heavy written by Ryan Calais Cameron and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-04-08 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nominated for Best New Play at the 2023 Olivier Awards I found a king in me and now I love you I found a king in you and now I love me Father figures and fashion tips. Lost loves and jollof rice. African empires and illicit sex. Good days and bad days. Six young Black men meet for group therapy, and let their hearts - and imaginations - run wild. Inspired by Ntozake Shange's essential work For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf, For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When The Hue Gets Too Heavy is a profound and playful work, co-commissioned by Boundless Theatre, from multi-award-winning company Nouveau Riche and playwright Ryan Calais Cameron. For Black Boys... gained critical acclaim for the world premiere in October 2021 at New Diorama Theatre, before successfully transferring to London's Royal Court Theatre in March 2022. This edition was published to coincide with the West End production at the Apollo Theatre in March 2023.

Download or read book For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Hue Gets Too Heavy written by Ryan Calais Cameron and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I found a king in me and now I love you I found a king in you and now I love me Father figures and fashion tips. Lost loves and jollof rice. African empires and illicit sex. Good days and bad days. Six young Black men meet for group therapy, and let their hearts - and imaginations - run wild. Located on the threshold of joyful fantasy and brutal reality, this is a world of music, movement, storytelling and verse, where six men clash and connect in a desperate bid for survival. For Black Boys... is a profound and playful new work from multi-award-winning company Nouveau Riche and playwright Ryan Calais Cameron, whose 2021 film Typical, based on the 2019 play with Richard Blackwood, was heralded as a landmark event in digital theatre.

Download or read book Theory/Theatre written by Mark Fortier and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-01 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fully updated and revised fourth edition of Theory/Theatre is a unique and highly engaging introduction to cultural theory as it relates to theatre and performance. It is a comprehensive and accessible examination of current theoretical approaches, from semiotics and poststructuralism, through to cultural materialism, postcolonial studies, queer and feminist theories. Key updates to the new edition include further perspectives and expanded content on: - Technology, audience reception and liveness - Further examinations of feminism, transgender and gender theory, as well as queer theory - Disability studies - Critical Race Theory - Decolonization - Intersectionality - Critical Phenomenology Bringing contemporary voices and examples to light, author Mark Fortier introduces the ways in which established and emerging theories can interact with theatre and performance. This is essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students of theatre and performance studies.

Download or read book Theatre and Therapy written by Fintan Walsh and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-09-19 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the relationship between theatre and therapy? How has this relationship developed over time, with a new contemporary focus on mental wellbeing? How is therapy put on the couch by theatrical performance? Theatre and Therapy explores the evolution of links between theatre and therapy by considering actor training, theatre in therapeutic contexts, and contemporary theatre and performance practice. The book illuminates some of the connections and frictions between theatre and therapy, drawing on a range of examples that includes theatre performance, documentary theatre, solo performance, comedy, method acting and dramatherapy. This concise study traverses some of the changing interactions between theatre and therapy, and in this revised edition, takes into account shifting attitudes and approaches to theatre as a therapeutically inspired practice and tool.

Download or read book Three Poems written by Alistair McDowall and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-06-19 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I suppose I never questioned why I was only one piece before A woman trapped at home during an air raid. A mother who starts to see double. A whole life in one breath. Three short plays by Alistair McDowall introduce us to three women whose ordinary lives mask extraordinary internal worlds. This trilogy includes the plays Northleigh, 1940, In Stereo and all of it, written for and performed by Kate O'Flynn. This edition was published to coincide with the run at the Royal Court and the Avignon Festival in June 2023.

Download or read book Blanket Ban written by Davinia Hamilton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-08-25 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of New Diorama, Underbelly and Methuen Drama's Untapped Award 2022 Sometimes I'm afraid of this play. Malta: Catholic kitsch, golden sun, deep blue sea, Eurovision - and a blanket ban on abortion. Propelled by three years of interviews with anonymous contributors and their own lived experience, actors and activists Marta and Davinia interrogate Malta's restrictions on the freedom of women. What does it mean for your home to boast the world's most progressive LGBTQIA+ rights, leading transgender laws – and a population that is almost unanimously anti-choice? Blanket Ban is a rallying cry from award-winning Chalk Line Theatre. This edition was published to coincide with the production at Underbelly Cowgate, Edinburgh, in August 2022.