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1000 tulosta hakusanalla Richard Nelson
Subtitled "A Comedy of Trans-Atlantic Manners." An Englishman and his family live far-flung across the vast American continent. Brought together by tragedy, they find comfort in attacking their adopted country, ridiculing its crude ways and lack of standards. Humor and irony as well as the sense of loss and longing permeate this story of exiles unable to address a world that is passing by. "This dark comedy begins, quite literally, with a bang: A man sitting in the book-lined den of his Connecticut farmhouse puts a revolver to his head and, as his girlfriend, Alice, walks into the room, pulls the trigger (done with startlingly bloody effect). Next 85 of the play's 90 minutes detail a gathering of the clan as the man's adult children, among others, argue away a tension-packed night on the eve of the memorial service. Hosting this often-nasty get-together of British expatriates is Alice, the suicide's middle-aged mistress who two years prior had given up a successful publishing career in New York for a country life shared with a man she slowly realizes she never really knew...witty, acerbic banter." Greg Evans, Variety "NEW ENGLAND, played without intermission, is bold in its form: the climax comes in the first scene. The next seven scenes are an extended coda, not so much to Harry's life as to the British-American culture gap and to a world made orderly by distinctions of class and education...a work of intelligence and wit." Vincent Canby, The New York Times
Olivier Award, Best Play "Nelson's great virtue is that he asks hard questions about the emotional priorities of people who've missed out on their childhoods, poignantly charting the outer boundaries of affection and the disparity between the human craving for love and the human ability to give it." Kate Straiton, Time Out "Upsettingly engrossing." Louise Kingsley, What's On "I have long believed Nelson to be among the greatest dramatists of his generation...there is a remarkable kind of poetry here..." Sheridan Morley, The Spectator
WHERE I COME FROM is a play for young people to perform. There is no over-arching "message" to the piece, rather it is a play which explores the complexities and ambiguities of life. Writing from the Naturalistic tradition of Anton Chekhov (although in a very different era), Nelson uses a richness of texture and subtext to evoke the complicated circumstances of these characters' lives. Through our exploration of these "places underneath" we have developed an enormous sense of affection for the young people in this play--their resilience, their affection and generosity towards each other, but mostly their belief that the world should be a just and honest place. They are, as Nelson says, "heroic" in the passion, perseverance and curiosity that they bring to the struggles of life.From the program of the premiere production by the East Norfolk Sixth Form College
In the midst of our unsettled world, The Apple Family, last seen in 2014, return; though not over the dinner table, but via Zoom. This hour-long play picks them up in the midst of their now suspended and quarantined lives. They talk about grocery shopping, friends lost, new ventures on a hoped-for horizon, all during a time when human conversation (and theater) may be more needed that ever before. The Apple Family plays: "No previous works of theater have been topical in the resonant and specific ways of the Apple Family plays... They are a rare and radiant mirror of the way we live..."Ben Brantley, The New York Times The critics on The Apple Family's first Zoom play, WHAT DO WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT? viewed over 80,000 times in over 30 countries: "Infinitely Poignant."The New York Times, Critics Pick "The First Great Original Play of Quarantine." The New Yorker "The best example of Zoom theatre I have watched so far."The Guardian, Five Stars "It's almost like you are watching a new art form being born." Vogue "It couldn't be more relevant to how we are right now." The Washington Post "Brilliant Theater on Zoom." Daily Beast "Stakes claim as first powerful drama of the pandemic."Deadline "Immensely tender and beautifully constructed new drama that responds directly to the current situation."Financial Times
Critic's Pick "Truly profound... The genius of INCIDENTAL MOMENTS is in how it extends the] social and verbal uneasiness within a family to embrace the most important and divisive subjects of the day."The New York Times***** Five Stars (out of Five) "Beautifully composed."The Guardian (UK) "Virtually perfect."Daily Mail (UK)***** Five Stars (out of Five) "Nelson subtly shines a light on the anger and angst of modern-day America. Underneath their chit-chat, you feel the tide of history turning."The Stage (UK) **** Four Stars. "The piece's unspoken liberalism-real liberalism, which allows for different points of view-is a moving rebuke to our parched, stark times."The Sunday Times (UK) "An achingly poignant trilogy that maps out the existential black hole we seem to have fallen into."The Washington Post "The pieces (the trilogy) will be remembered, mostly, for how they told the story of our feelings while isolated."Chicago Tribune
"Nelson, in his 100-minute play, intertwines two familiar themes: the sexual initiation of the young and the confrontation of American innocence by European experience. His hero, Carl, now married with children, reminisces about Paris is 1966. We see how, as 15-year-old student at the American school, he falls under the spell of a beguiling literature teacher. One night, after an extramural film excursion, Carl stays behind in her flat. For him, this offers a magical introduction to the world of art, music, adult emotion and Kama Sutra sex. For Claudie, the literature teacher, this brief encounter is largely a way of overcoming her devastation at the breakup of an affair. But what gives the play its peculiar charm is the tender collision between two people at different stages of their emotional cycle: Carl has what Henry James called 'the hungry futurity of youth' while the messed-up Claudie has the restless solitude of the permanent other woman ... Nelson has pinned down with exact compassion what happens when two worlds collide."Michael Billington, The Guardian "There's much talk of matters sensual in the play and offstage there's the initiation of a minor; but sex isn't exactly the theme. Rather it's about loneliness ... there are moments when it threatens to decline into that clich liberal fulfilling Paris ... versus boring, restrictive Dumbsville, Ohio. But Nelson, an American dramatist much performed in Britain, proves himself defter, subtler than that."The Times "What makes the play so special is the vivid precision of the writing ... Nelson] achieves a surprising variety of emotion on what might seem a narrow dramatic canvas. At times the comedy is unashamedly broad ... Yet the writing also cuts remarkably deep, not least in the subtly understated closing moments when mortality suddenly intrudes on this Arcadian idyll. For beyond the touching sexual comedy, MADAME MELVILLE is an exquisitely painful reminder of lost love, lost innocence and lost youth."The Daily Telegraph
"I would want NIKOLAI AND THE OTHERS] to be seen by anyone interested in Balanchine and his choreography... The world of Russian emigres is Chekhovian in both intimacy and intricacy." Alastair Macaulay, The New York Times "Paints a group portrait of artists for whom time is forever out of joint... NIKOLAI AND THE OTHERS] summons both a sense of place and displacement with such naturalness that you forget that you're watching titans at play."Ben Brantley, The New York Times "An engrossing works that transports Chekhov to the threshold of the Cold War. The country house isn't in the Russian provinces but in Westport, Connecticut, and it's 1948. The characters are exiles whose childhoods on large estates ended with the czar's rue, decades earlier... Though they talk a lot, they don't just talk; they are managing, midwifing, or directly making some of the twentieth century's greatest art."Jesse Green, New York "I felt as if I had just experienced a beautifully detailed novel..."Roma Torre, NY1 "Inspired." Jeremy Gerard, Bloomberg "Nelson has created a beautifully moving look at a dark time in America. And he] skillfully encapsulates the complexities of these emigres lives as they struggle with artistic ambitions, memories of past loves, yearning for their long-lost homeland, and current-day political issues."Jennifer Farrar, Associated Press
"THE MICHAELS is as hopeful as it is heartbreaking."Ben Brantley, The New York Times "Nelson builds characters who are rich in spirit and soul and sets them in motion like tops."Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker "Transfixing."David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter "A tenderly moving drama about a modern dance choreographer facing mortality, and the effect of this brilliant, challenging woman on the people around her."Diane Snyder, Time Out "In its distinctive way it edges into and out of so many emotional territories and registers; it shows how the epic and the everyday can be close cousins; and how the mundane and shattering can unfold as you wash a glass, or bake a quiche."Tim Teeman, Daily BeastFive Stars "Dinner is prepared, songs are sung, stories are told, dances are rehearsed, and the meal is eaten-all amidst conversations about art, death, family, dance, politics, how the world sees America... The play portrays a modesty and an enduring faith in the validity of simple human interaction."David Walters, New York Theater GuideFive Stars "Immensely rewarding."Steven Suskin, New York Stage Review "THE MICHAELS seduces with the details, caught on the fly, of lives well-lived in spite of everything. The play is a balm for troubled spirits."David Barbour, L & S America "Magnificent." Christopher Byrne, Gay City News
Critics Pick "Extraordinary... Nelson's] stripped-down dramaturgy asks us to care about character more than story, and to see the largest matters in the smallest details."Jesse Green, The New York Times "In this beautiful capstone work, the sense is not so much a resolution as a dissolving; the characters of WHAT HAPPENED? have become unmoored, as if the isolation of the pandemic has caused some permanent psychic dislocation."Peter Marks, The Washington PostFive Stars "WHAT HAPPENED? shines a fierce light on COVID's devastating impact..."Elysa Gardner, New York Stage ReviewFive Stars "Playwright Richard Nelson completes what he calls his Rhinebeck Panorama with WHAT HAPPENED?: THE MICHAELS ABROAD which] might be the most powerful of them all... As with the other installments in the series, WHAT HAPPENED? will likely be widely produced..."Steven Suskin, New York Stage Review "This is a play about loss, the inevitable changes wrought by time and circumstance, and finding a way to go on, however haltingly. We may never know fully what happened, but we do go on, and sharing this reality with this family-transforming life into art-lets us know that whatever we went through all those months, we were not alone." Christopher Byrne, Gay City News "WHAT HAPPENED?: THE MICHAELS ABROAD is] something of a socio-document that can and should be studied for years to come by those who want to know what life was life 'during the pandemic.'"J K Clarke, Theater Pizzazz "Each new piece of Nelson's series, The Rhinebeck Panorama] has felt like a cool blast of civilization in a world gone mad."David Barbour, Lighting Dimensions
Six Young Women Putting on a Play - A Diary of Theatre and War: Kyiv, Winter 2025
Richard Nelson
Salamander Street Ltd.
2025
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"I am more than what has happened to me."With the world's politics in a mess, with an American President leading that charge, American playwright, Richard Nelson, wrote and directed a play for Theater on Podil in Kyiv, Ukraine. Throughout the ten weeks of rehearsals for When the Hurlyburly's Done, he kept a diary. Day after day he was inspired by his six young actresses, some as young as twenty-one, and so they had lived half their lives in wartime. They laughed and cried as the play, their characters, their lives and the war entwined. An inspiring and very human story about making art when everything else feels out of one's control.
This book, written in 1973, is for readers interested in the naval history of the ancient peoples of the Mediterranean. The period covered starts with Greek and Phoenician vessels of 800-700 BC and includes ships up to 800 AD. The aim of the book is to fill a gap by concentrating on the practical aspects of naval warfare in antiquity, and the battles selected for description are intended to show the development of tactics and strategy, rather than illustrate the general history of the period. It includes descriptions of the ships, crews, tactics and campaigns of Greek, Persian, Carthaginian, Hellenic, Roman, Celtic, Germanic, Scandinavian and Byzantine fleets. Long out of print, this reprint brings an important text to modern readers.
In the midst of war, spending nine weeks directing his play, Conversations in Tusculum, in Kyiv, Ukraine, American playwright and director Richard Nelson kept a diary. Here the mundane, the artistic, and the ongoing war entwine in a visceral account of making theatre in a different world at a time and a place where it has come to have a very special meaning.A profoundly moving, exceptional, essential story, full of humor, self-questioning, confusions, doubts, fears, heartbreak, and joy, set in the middle of a beautiful, magical city under attack."In this deeply stirring chronicle of making theater in a time of war, Richard Nelson deploys the same sensibility that shapes his plays, moving from curiosity to empathy to invaluable insight. Drama, for Nelson, has always been about creating an endlessly evolving conversation - on the stage, yes, but also with the time and place and people it reflects. Here, that dialogue echoes with a thrilling new urgency. Nelson's Kyiv diaries radiate hope for the endurance and necessity of theater." - Ben Brantley"I have never read a theatrical diary before like Richard Nelson's. In describing the process of staging his play, Conversations in Tusculum, in Kyiv, Mr Nelson gives a deeply moving picture of the grit, determination and heroism required to create theatre in a time of war: " - Michael Billington
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Richard Nelson
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2016
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