34 | 2020Verse Drama on the Anglophone Stage in the 20th-21st Centuries

Sous la direction de Claire Hélie et Xavier Lemoine

254 p.

ISBN : 978-2-9551911-7-0

This volume means to turn the spotlight on a genre that used to be coterminous with drama originally but is now considered as just a branch of it, and not a popular one at that, namely verse drama. The contributors show the wide range of dramatic possibilities opened by the use of verse on stage, from Yeats and Gordon Craig to T.S. Eliot and Tony Harrison to Peter Oswald, Derek Walcott and Emmet Kirwan. The volume also features a statement by Patxo Tellería, a Castilian playwright and author of Pancréas (2015), as well as a translation of Glyn Maxwell’s Best Man Speech (2014), a monologue in verse first performed at the Edinburgh Festival. Finally, the volume includes a short version of Saraé Durest’s annotated translation of Caryl Churchill’s The Skriker (1994), awarded the first RADAC prize for outstanding Master’s dissertation.

Sommaire

Susan Blattès
Foreword
I - Verse Drama on the Anglophone Stage
- Claire Hélie
  Verse drama on the Anglophone stage in the 20^th-21^st Centuries: An Introduction
- Pierre Longuenesse
  Du vers à la vision, entre musique et imagination : le poème dramatique selon W.B. Yeats
- Patrick Le Boeuf
  Gordon Craig and English Verse
- Rowland Cotterill
  Poetic Drama, Worldliness, and the Anti-Poetic in Plays by Charles Williams, T. S. Eliot, David Hare and Mike Bartlett
- Estelle Rivier-Arnaud
  Sound and Sense in the Adaptation of the Classics on the Anglophone Stage: Bolt’s Cyrano, Ives’s Liar and Kane’s Phaedra, Three Radically Different Poetics
- Cécile Marshall
  “Clear[ing] a Space for a New Verse Drama”: Harrison, Prosody, and Theatricality
- Richard O’Brien
  “We are Folk / Who Understand Unhampered Language Best”: Peter Oswald, T. S. Eliot, and The Possibilities of (Contemporary) Poetic Drama at Shakespeare’s Globe
- Kerry-Jane Wallart
  Reimagined Historiographies on a Mnemonic Stage: Derek Walcott’s Drums and Colours
- Kasia Lech
  The “Roughening Up of the Utterance” or “It’s Not All Mountains and Sheep and Emily Dickinson”: How Contemporary Practitioners Test Boundaries of Verse Drama
- Patxo Tellería
  Verse Drama Elsewhere: Páncreas
II - Glyn Maxwell
- Claire Hélie
  Glyn Maxwell: The Rhythm of Theatre
- Glyn Maxwell
  Best Man Speech / Les Vœux du témoin (2004) de Glyn Maxwell
III - Prix Master
- Saraé Durest
  La Vocifère. Translating Caryl Churchill’s The Skriker

Sommaire

I - Verse Drama on the Anglophone Stage

II - Glyn Maxwell

III - Prix Master