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Howard Colyer
Kirjat ja teokset yhdessä paikassa: 38 kirjaa, julkaisuja vuosilta 2006–2025, suosituimpiin kuuluu Kafka's War. Vertaile teosten hintoja ja tarkista saatavuus suomalaisista kirjakaupoista.
38 kirjaa
Kirjojen julkaisuvuodet: 2006–2025.
A diary in haiku: three short lines per day: an autobiography in fragments. Praise for the previous diary - 'Varied subject matter and a very much recommended collection.' - Blithe Spirit: Journal of the British Haiku Society
A three-line match report for every league and cup game, home and away, for four seasons. Praise for the author's earlier collection of Millwall haiku: 'Poetry might not seem a natural bedfellow for football, but like the game, it has a pace and rhythm, which can reflect the ebb and flow of footballing fortunes. A recommended read. An original style in which to capture the fortunes of a club.' Football Book Reviews
A diary in haiku - life at a rate of seventeen syllables a day.
This letter is the closest that Kafka came to setting down his autobiography. He was driven to write it by his father's opposition to his engagement with Julie Wohryzek. The marriage did not take place; the letter was not delivered.
A diary in haiku - life at a rate of seventeen syllables a day.
He wears a mask - he pretends to be an idling, strolling observer of others: an amused spectator. He watches people on the street, in shops, in cafes: wherever he finds them he notes their peculiarities and imagines their lives. Like a naturalist with a bone of an unknown creature, he extrapolates and forms an entire animal in his mind's eye. It is his joy; it is his defence: he revels in life, so as to ignore death. For its shadow lies over him.
A diary in haiku - life at a rate of seventeen syllables a day.
Gregory Gun is devoted to his job and he is made redundant. And then he struggles. But he tries to cope and he fights against his own character; but finally he shuts himself away and becomes a hermit in London, and lives a strange and secret life.
A diary in haiku - life at a rate of seventeen syllables a day.
A diary in haiku - life at a rate of seventeen syllables a day.
Thirteen seasons in three lines, 2003/4 - 2015/16, short and sharp match reports from the Den.
A young woman attempts suicide - but she's found before the poison can kill her. A journalist becomes interested in her life, then a novelist - stories circulate, more people are drawn in, and even the Foreign Office tries to intervene. An adaptation of Pirandello's play set in London in the winter of 1979-80. "A thought-provoking play about identity, guilt and betrayal." UK Theatre Network "It is a bitesize philosophy lecture...delivered with confidence and competence." A Younger Theatre
Gogol's greatest play - indeed one of the best comedies ever written - freely adapted for studio productions.
A classic of the German stage adapted as a monologue. Though written in 1837 Woyzeck is widely regarded as the first Expressionist play due to its splintered and fragmentary nature. Here it is presented in a new form.
Somebody must have maligned Joseph K. because he was arrested one morning without having done anything wrong. Franz Kafka's novel translated and adapted for the stage for solo performance. "Colyer strips back the novel to get to the heart of the story but maintains the dreamlike - or perhaps nightmarish - quality for which Kafka was famous." Sian Rowland
A man is convinced his daughter is a genius and he drives her on and on until she has no choice but to reveal herself for what she is. "It is not a tragedy in the sense of confrontation and collision, but in the sense of a man overwhelmed by his fate. It is a classical tragedy in the guise of a middle class drama." Roberto Alonge
You Take The 321, Again, Without Reluctance and Without Relief : Three dramatic monologues about strange and enigmatic lives staged together at the Jack Studio in South-east London in February 2015. "Howard Colyer paints lyrical landscapes of failed relationships, loneliness and desperation without ever giving in to sentimentality." Carolin Kopplin UK Theatre Network
An epic drama set in the early seventeenth century as Russia descends into civil war. "Howard Colyer's extremely effective and pared-down style constantly adds energy to this adaptation of Pushkin's greatest play even as it cuts." Jon Wainwright, The Public Reviews.