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Bernard Pomerance and the Elephant Man
Bernard Pomerance was born in 1940 in Brooklyn, New York. He attended college at the University of Chicago, where he received a degree in English. In the 1970's Pomerance moved to London, England to become a novelist. He was unsuccessful and then decided to try his hand as a dramatist. He quickly got involved with several left-wing fringe groups, which where at the time thriving in England. Then, along with director Ronald Rees, he founded the Foco Nove Theater group. Throughout Pomeranc's career nearly all of his plays were at one time preformed at his Foco Novo theater..
Pomerance became fairly successful as a play write. His first play, High in Vietnam Hot Damn, was first produced by the Foco Novo Theater group in 1971 in London. Hospital and Thanksgiving Before Detroit where also produced by the Foco Novo Theater group in 1971. In 1972 a play called Foco Novo was produced by the Foco Novo Theater group. In 1974 Someone Else is Still Someone was produced. A adaption of a play by Brecht, A Man's a Man, was produced in 1975. The Elephant Man, Pomerance's only really popular piece of work came out in 1979. It was first produced at the Hempstead Theater in London. It was then produced off Broadway at the Theater of St. Peters church, and on Broadway at the Booth Theater in New York City. After The Elephant Man Pomerance produced Faber in 1981 and Melons in 1985, but neither became popular like The Elephant Man. During Pomerance's career he also published one novel called We Need to Dream All This Again, but it was unsuccessful. Most of Pomerance's plays were reasonably liked, but none were recognized and praised like The Elephant Man. The Elephant man received a Tony, the Drama Des...
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...Thanksgiving Before Detroit
-Foco Novo
-Someone Else is Still Someone
-A Mans a Man
-The Elephant Man
- Faber
-Melons
The Elephant man was Pomerance's most popular play and it won Many awards
-Tony
-Drama Desk Award
-New York drama Critics Award
-Obi
Made into movie in 1980 staring John Hurt, Anthony Hopkins, Wendy Hiller, and Anne Bancraft. Preformed by David Bowie the rock singer in 1979
True story of John Merrick who lived from 1863 to 1890. He was deformed and had a head that was 36' in circumference.
John Merrick and Dr. Treves are used metophoricly. John represents people and his deformities their uniqueness. Dr. Treves represents rules and conformity.
Themes
-the arbitrariness of existence, posed against a hunger for design.
-the simple theme of miss judging people buy their appearance.
The film is based on a short story written by Stephen King. It originally appeared in his 1999 audiobook entitle...
Joseph Carey Merrick, who died 120 years ago, was an individual with extreme disfigurements that could cause any person to run in fear, or even become ill, at the sight of him. Joseph Merrick was an inspiration to many, whether it was to people who saw him in sideshows, in the hospital, or to doctors who were baffled by his condition. Many questions were asked about Merrick; many refused to believe that he was even a human. Some thought he was alien, some thought animal, or, in the case of Frederick Treves, just a misunderstood man with nowhere to turn.
writing was weak during grade school, but his great pieces came his senior year at Harvard. He became editor for the Harvard Lampoon, which is the school’s newspaper.
Elephants'." Studies in Short Fiction. 17.1 (Winter 1980): 75-77. Rpt. in Literature Resource Center. Detroit: Gale, 75-77. Literature Resource Center. Gale.
Apocalypse Now. Dir. Francis Ford Coppola. Pro. Francis Ford Coppola. American Zoetrope, August 15, 1979.
and work as a journalist. One of his most famous play is "A View from
People of different worth and status have their perspective displayed so that every detail of a situation is covered. Even if these characters seem fictional they are actually based on real and living people that Andy Mulligan has encountered
Lapine’s off-Broadway experienced definitely helped him create his style of writing, which in turn rubbed off on Sondheim even after their time as collaborators was over. Lapine felt that he championed visual theater with less reliance on text to tell the story (Stempel, ...
in 1979, based on his own life. It is set in Liverpool and depicts the
1980. Warner Bros. Directed by Stanley Kubrick. Music by Wendy Carlos and Rcachel Elkind. Cinematography by John Alcott. Editing by Ray Lovejoy. With Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd.
American theatre in the early 1900s highlighted the changes that were occurring in society. Throughout this era, playwrights were making drama new by challenging traditions. Broadway’s establishment caused a rise in theatre that led to new plays and playwrights emerging. Among those emergent playwrights was Eugene O’Neill. O’Neill’s The Hairy Ape encompassed Modern characteristics such as alienation and industrialization, as well as characteristics of Naturalism.
He wrote his first play klaas and the devil.(1956) He there after wrote No-Good Friday (1958) ,the cell (1957) and nongogo (1959) which was his first ever play to be produced abroad in Sheffield, England and in New York, USA. In the years 1958-1961 Fugard worked with the Union Artists in Johannesburg. (The Union of South African Artists, known as Union Artists, was formed in the 1950s to protect black artists from being discriminated against). Around about 1959 Fugard moves to London to avoid conflict with the national government as his plays were going against the regime of the time where he writes the blood knot in 1960. This play was performed once in Johannesburg in 1961 before being banned by the government. In 1961 Fugards daughter Lisa Fugard is born, but unfortunately his father dies later that year, that same year Fugard joins the fight against apartheid and writes a play called the coat (1966) which is produced that in 1966 in South Africa. In 1967 Fugard returned to ...
Many playwrights drew from outside influences to compose their works. They would look the era they were living in, their personal lives, childhood experiences, and even ancient texts to acquire inspiration for their works and famous playwright, Eugene O’Neill, is no exception. Writing through two world wars, a great depression, and boom of the motion-picture industry, O’Neill certainly had much inspiration to choose from. Although not becoming nationally recognized until after his father’s death in 1920, O’Neill still managed to produce fifty completed works. Using influences from the 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, Eugene O’Neill demonstrated how he used the era he was living in to help compose his works.
"Shooting an Elephant" is perhaps one of the most anthologized essays in the English language. It is a splendid essay and a terrific model for a theme of narration. The point of the story happens very much in our normal life, in fact everyday. People do crazy and sometimes illegal moves to get a certain group or person to finally give them respect. George Orwell describes an internal conflict between his personal morals and his duty to his country to the white man's reputation. The author's purpose is to explain the audience (who is both English and Burmese) about the kind of life he is living in Burma, about the conditions, circumstances he is facing and to tell the British Empire what he think about their imperialism and his growing displeasure for the imperial domination of British Empire.
Overall, Shaw’s childhood was an unhappy one. By the age of fifteen, his parents had split up. His mom deserted her husband and left for England to live with her two daughters. In order to support himself, Shaw left school and got a job working as a clerk and cashier for a firm of land agents for nearly found and a half years. During this time, George Bernard took it upon himself to read and visit the theatre as much as possible.