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Автор: Howard Brenton, David Hare
Название: Pravda
ISBN: 9781472574770
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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ISBN-10: 147257477X
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 144
Вес: 0.13 кг.
Дата издания: 21.05.2015
Серия: Modern classics
Язык: English
Размер: 131 x 198 x 10
Читательская аудитория: Professional and scholarly
Ключевые слова: Theatre studies, DRAMA / General
Основная тема: Theatre studies,DRAMA / General
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: The press and politicians. A delicate relationship. Too close, and danger ensues. Too far apart, and democracy itself cannot function. Pravda (which means truth) is a satire written at the height of Thatcherism when huge political changes were afoot. The play essentially studies, through black humour and close scrutiny, the tabloid ethic and the media industry as a get-rich-quick-fix. In the programme for the original 1985 production of Pravda, Brenton wrote: Pravda means the truth. English newspapers arent propaganda sheets. The question is, why do so many of them choose to behave as if they are? The character of Lambert Le Roux is a South African newspaper tycoon and the owner of several companies, striding his way through the regional papers en route to Fleet Street. Turning broadsheets tabloid, dumbing down the message, and stretching the truth, Le Roux takes no prisoners as he manipulates politicians and creates a media monopoly out of a once-respected industry. Le Roux is bent on dominating Englands press as he has elsewhere in the world. As we see Le Roux accomplish his aims, we see also how the press is not the organ of truth we like to think it is. The dissemination of the truth is no longer its primary goal under the Lambert Le Rouxs of our world. What is important now is what sells. The play is an epic satire on the media in the Thatcher era; a morality tale about how Andrew, a young liberal journalist, finally succumbs to Le Roux, who makes him editor of a tabloid; and – allegedly – the play is a direct representation of Rupert Murdoch who, even in 1985, was a major force in media ownership. Howard Brentons and David Hares first collaboration since Brassneck in 1973, Pravda was premiered at the National Theatre in May 1985, starring Anthony Hopkins and directed by David Hare, and was awarded the London Standard Best Play Award, the City Limits Best Play Award, and the Plays and Players Best Play Award. This Modern Classics edition features an introduction by Philip Roberts, Emeritus Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies at the University of Leeds, and a foreword by Jonathan Church.

Pravda, Howard Brenton, David Hare