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A Life in Three Acts
Mr Mark Ravenhill
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Description for A Life in Three Acts
Paperback. Tells about the author's brave and flamboyant life. This work reminisces and replays scenes from his life from a postwar childhood, a stint as a classical actor in the late 60s, to living in a drag commune in Notting Hill and being an active member of the Gay Liberation Front. Series: Modern Plays. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 5. Weight in Grams: 60.
With honesty, humour and occasional anger, performer Bette Bourne tells the playwright Mark Ravenhill about his brave and flamboyant life. Crafted from transcripts of a series of long, private conversations, actor Bette Bourne reminisces and replays scenes from his life from a postwar childhood,a stint as a classical actor in the late 60s, to living in a drag commune in Notting Hill and being an active member of the Gay Liberation Front. Bette then talks about his touring with the New York based Hot Peaches cabaret group and founding his own cabaret troop, Bloolips, which redefined the term gay theatre ... Read more
With honesty, humour and occasional anger, performer Bette Bourne tells the playwright Mark Ravenhill about his brave and flamboyant life. Crafted from transcripts of a series of long, private conversations, actor Bette Bourne reminisces and replays scenes from his life from a postwar childhood,a stint as a classical actor in the late 60s, to living in a drag commune in Notting Hill and being an active member of the Gay Liberation Front. Bette then talks about his touring with the New York based Hot Peaches cabaret group and founding his own cabaret troop, Bloolips, which redefined the term gay theatre ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Series
Modern Plays
Condition
New
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408125212
SKU
V9781408125212
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-5
About Mr Mark Ravenhill
Mark Ravenhill's first full-length play Shopping and Fucking was produced in 1996 at the Royal Court. It launched him to immediate fame and defined the stage writing of 1990s. Since then, he has continued to garner critical acclaim for controversial and plays that include Some Explicit Polaroids (Out of Joint), Mother Clap's Molly House (National Theatre), Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat (Paines Plough/National ... Read more
Reviews for A Life in Three Acts
'A Life in Three Acts is Mark Ravenhill's genial engagement with the life and times of actor, activist and drag queen Bette Bourne, and is a turnaround from the increasingly conceptual furrow the playwright has ploughed of late.' Andrzej Lukowski, Metro (London), 24.9.09 '[A Life in Three Acts] is based on a series of edited transcripts of conversations that ... Read more