In-yer-face theatre is a term used to describe a confrontational style and sensibility of drama that emerged in Great Britain in the 1990s. This term was...
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figure of In-yer-face theatre, a term used to characterise new plays with a confrontational style and sensibility that emerged in British theatre during...
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Steven Berkoff (category English theatre directors)
"Berkovian theatre", which combines elements of physical theatre, total theatre and expressionism. His work has sometimes been viewed as an example of in-yer-face...
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Sarah Kane (category Postmodern theatre)
termed "in-yer-face theatre". Sierz originally called Kane "the quintessential in-yer-face writer of the [1990s]" but later remarked in 2009 that although...
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Shopping and Fucking (category Theatre about drugs)
Along with Sarah Kane's Blasted, it was a prime exemplar of British in-yer-face theatre of the 1990s. The sexual violence of Shopping and Fucking explores...
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East (play) (category Plays set in London)
called the play an "in-yer-face classic" and has named Berkoff as "a pioneer of in-yer-face theatre". The label of in-yer-face theatre, popularised by Sierz...
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The Pitchfork Disney (category Dreams in theatre)
seminal work in the confrontational 1990s style and sensibility of British drama termed in-yer-face theatre. The play is the first entry in Ridley's unofficially...
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Rainbow Kiss (category Plays set in Scotland)
from all the others we have seen since the arrival of the "in-yer-face" school of theatre a decade or more ago", although he asserted Farquahar "betrays...
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In-Yer-Face Theatre: British Drama Today (London: Faber and Faber, 2001). "Home". "Proscenium | theatre | Britannica". "What are the types of theatre...
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Philip Ridley (section Theatre)
"a pioneer of In-yer-face theatre", which is a style and sensibility of drama that characterised many new plays that were performed in Britain during...
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Five Kinds of Silence (category Theatre of the United Kingdom)
Five Kinds of Silence is an in-yer-face theatre play by the playwright Shelagh Stephenson, first published in 1997. It tells the story of a family living...
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Rebecca Prichard (category Postmodern theatre)
contributors to the In-yer-face theatre movement. Prichard studied drama at Exeter University and in 1994, went on to her playwriting debut in 1994 in the Royal...
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Channel 4 film review". channel4.com. Retrieved 12 March 2007. "IN-YER-FACE THEATRE". Aleks Sierz. Retrieved 12 March 2007. Sierz, Aleks; Saunders, Graham...
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is a play written by Tracy Letts in 1993. The play was produced then premiered in 1993 at the Next Theatre Lab, in Evanston, Illinois, directed by Wilson...
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Theatre portal United Kingdom portal List of British playwrights List of playwrights List of Scottish dramatists Lists of writers Drama In-yer-face theatre...
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by Aleks Sierz in his In-yer-face theatre website. Accessed 8 June 2008. "Monsterists" entry by Aleks Sierz in his In-yer-face theatre website. Accessed...
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Michael T. Roberts. It is considered one of the earliest examples of in-yer-face theatre. Two friends, 20-somethings Max and Alan are alone, when Tadge, their...
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three act in-yer-face play by Dennis Kelly. The first two acts were staged as part of the Wild Lunch series by Paines Plough theatre company in May 2004...
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Claire Dowie (section Theatre)
Stand-up Theatre in England. She is a writer for In-yer-face theatre. Originally she wanted to be a dancer, and toured briefly with a group in Europe....
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Cleansed (category Transgender-related theatre)
Sarah Kane and the theatre of extremes. Manchester University Press. ISBN 0-7190-5956-9. Sierz, Aleks (5 March 2001). In-Yer-Face Theatre: British Drama Today...
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Aleks Sierz (category British theatre critics)
is a British theatre critic. He is known for popularising the term "In-yer-face theatre", which was the title of a book he published in 2001. Sierz was...
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of Theatre of the Grotesque. His plays, the most popular of which is The Lieutenant of Inishmore (2001), can be categorised as ‘In-yer-face theatre’, a...
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1965), English dramatist, director and actor associated with the In-yer-face theatre style Moira Chen, a pseudonym for actress Laura Gemser Moyra Fraser...
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grown in reputation and have been recognised as major works in the development of In-yer-face theatre which radically characterised new writing in British...
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Debris is an in-yer-face play by Dennis Kelly. It was first produced at the Latchmere Theatre (now Theatre 503) in London in 2003, before being transferred...
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Ghost from a Perfect Place (category Plays set in London)
very short history of in-yer-face theatre". In-Yer-Face Theatre. Retrieved 17 September 2018. Taylor, Paul (14 April 1994). "THEATRE / Hell's belles: Paul...
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Aleks Sierz: In-Yer-Face Theatre. British Drama Today. 2001 ISBN 0-571-20049-4 British Council profile Guardian interview 2002 British Theatre Guide interview...
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Ridley's writing, saying that “Ridley might be the last bastion of In-Yer-Face Theatre. Where others have mellowed and generate plays like anyone else of...
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Anna Reading (section Theatre)
part of the British drama movement called ‘In yer face theatre’. In 1987, the all-female Strip Search theatre company performed Reading's Kiss Punch Goodnight...
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Jonathan Watson (section Theatre)
in John Byrne's adaptation of Chekhov's The Three Sisters for The Tron, Glasgow. He was also in The National Theatre of Scotland's production of Yer Granny...
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