Dennis Kelly / Aloysia Rousseau.
| Author/creator | Rousseau, Aloysia author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024. |
| Description | pages cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Routledge modern and contemporary dramatists Routledge modern and contemporary dramatists. ^A773427 |
| Contents | Life and career -- Reappraising assumptions about Kelly's work -- 'What kind of person are you?': probing human nature in Love and money (2006), The gods weep (2010) and The ritual slaughter of Gorge Mastromas (2013) -- The individual and the collective in Osama the hero (2005), DNA (2008) and Orphans (2009) -- Trauma narratives : Debris (2003), Girls & boys (2018), After the end (2005) and The Third Day (2020) -- Together (2021) and Pulling (2006-2009) : Kelly's post-romanticism -- Girls & boys in production -- Matilda the Musical (2010) on stage and screen -- Utopia's ethics and aesthetics. |
| Abstract | "Dennis Kelly explores Kelly's unusual career path and sheds light on his eclectic approach to the arts, characterised by a refusal to write texts that people can fit within neat categories. This is the first monograph on Kelly's work for stage and screen and brings to light his essential contribution to contemporary British drama and his huge range of work including his rise to international fame with Matilda the Musical. Drawing on Kelly's published and unpublished texts, his work in production, reviews, original interviews with directors, actors and with Kelly himself as well as critical theory, Dennis Kelly examines and reappraises key motifs in his work such as his preoccupation with violence, the complex relationship between the individual and the community or his emphasis on storytelling. It also offers new insights into overlooked aspects of Kelly's work by setting out to explore his traumatic narratives and his post-romanticism. In keeping with Kelly's wish never to repeat himself, this study offers multiple critical entries into his plays, television series and films, drawing on moral and political philosophy, trauma studies, studies in humour, feminist theory and film studies. Part of the Routledge Modern and Contemporary Dramatist series, Dennis Kelly is addressed to students and scholars in Drama, Theatre and Performance as well as theatre practitioners and offers in-depth analysis of one of the most unique and challenging voices in contemporary British playwriting and screenwriting"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Rousseau, Aloysia. Dennis Kelly Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024 9781003270744 |
| LCCN | 2024006720 |
| ISBN | 9781032219752 |
| ISBN | 9781032219769 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 1032219769 |
| ISBN | 1032219750 |
| ISBN | (ebook) |