Point Blank (Paperback)
Liz Tomlin
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Add to basketPaperback. Point Blank, one of Britains most provocative new theater companies, has received a deluge of critical acclaim for its darkly comic political satire and bleak metaphorical landscapes. Point Blank: Nothing to Declare, Operation Wonderland, Roses and Morphine, here reproduces three prominent examples of the companys early work and contextualizes these plays in the wider tradition and recent history of British political theater. In addition to the full performance scripts, Point Blank offers comprehensive notes to enable a range of potential restagings of the plays, as well as critical essays suggesting bold interpretations of the interplay between contemporary theatrical performance and the prevailing political climate. Editor Liz Tomlin offers invaluable insight into the companys dramaturgical processes that transform theoretical ideas into mythical, absurd scenarios and visually striking theatrical metaphor. Subversive and incendiary, Point Blank is forging a radical new vision of twenty-first-century theater. Praise for the Point Blank theatre company One of the most exciting theatres around. . . . Political, witty, challenging and bold.Guardian Quality theatre . . . totally compelling.Independent on Sunday Explosive new political satire . . . living up to their tag as Britains hottest new theatre company. . . . This is incendiary stuff.Edinburgh Evening News Contains an introduction, which contextualises Point Blank's work in the wider tradition and history of British political theatre. This publication of Point Blank's early work is a useful reading for students, audiences, actors and directors interested in radical writing for performance. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Liz Tomlin is a professor of theatre and performance at the University of Glasgow. Her publications include Acts and Apparitions: Discourses on the Real in Performance Practice and Theory (Manchester University Press, 2013) and Political Dramaturgies and Theatre Spectatorship: Provocations for Change (Bloomsbury Methuen, 2019). She has recently focused on class analysis of theatre leading an AHRC Research Network on class discrimination in the British theatre industry (2018–19) and holding an AHRC Research, Development and Engagement Fellowship from 2022 to 2024 (Figurations of Working-Class Subjects in UK Theatre Practice and Policy). Open access publications resulting from this work include a co-edited Special Issue, ‘Artist Development: Access, Diversity, Exclusion’ (Studies in Theatre and Performance 40:3, 2020) and Staging Class Conflict in the UK (Cambridge University Press, 2025). She was formerly playwright and co-director with Point Blank Theatre (1999–2009), with selected playtexts published in Point Blank: Performance Texts and Critical Essays (Intellect, 2007).
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