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| − | '' | + | '''''Other Places''''' is a trilogy of plays by English playwright [[Harold Pinter]] (1930-2008) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Pinter]: '''''Family Voices''''' (1980), '''''Victoria Station''''' (1982), and '''''A Kind of Alaska''''' (1982) - they are part of the "Memory Plays" [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Pinter#.22Memory_plays.22_.281968.E2.80.931982.29], a series of short plays and sketches [[Harold Pinter|Pinter]] wrote between 1968 and 1982 and are often staged together as one production. |
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Published in ''Other places : three plays'', by Harold Pinter. Methuen, 1982. | Published in ''Other places : three plays'', by Harold Pinter. Methuen, 1982. | ||
| + | == The original text == | ||
| + | '''''Family Voices''''' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Voices] is a 1980 radio play for three voices - it exposes the story of a mother, son, and dead husband and father through a series of letters that the mother and son have written to one another and that each speaks aloud. The play is also performed live on stage as a "platform performance" with three actors speaking the three voices. | ||
| + | '''''Victoria Station''''' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Station_%28play%29] is a 1982 short play for two actors and it consists of a radio dialogue between a minicab controller (or dispatcher) and a driver (#274) who is stopped by the side of "a dark park" in London, supposedly waiting further instructions. | ||
| − | + | '''''A Kind of Alaska''''' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Kind_of_Alaska] is a 1982 one-act play for three actors, about a middle-aged woman who awakes out of a coma after thirty years. | |
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==Translations and adaptations== | ==Translations and adaptations== | ||
== Performance history in South Africa == | == Performance history in South Africa == | ||
| + | 1984: Staged by [[PACT]] in the [[State Theatre]] in Pretoria and in the [[Alexander Theatre]] in Johannesburg, directed by [[Bobby Heaney]], with [[Graham Weir]] (Voice 1 in ''Family Voices''), [[Shelagh Holliday]] (Voice 2 in ''Family Voices'' & Deborah in ''A Kind of Alaska'')), [[Michael McCabe]] (Voice 3 in ''Family Voices'' & Controller in ''Victoria Station'' & Hornby in ''A Kind of Alaska''), [[Frantz Dobrowsky]] (Driver in ''Victoria Station'') and [[Jacqui Singer]] (Pauline in ''A Kind of Alaska''). Designed by [[Andrew Botha]]. | ||
| − | + | == Sources == | |
| − | + | [[PACT]] theatre programme, 1984. | |
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[[PACT]] pamphlet ''Let Us Build a Heritage''. 1984/85. | [[PACT]] pamphlet ''Let Us Build a Heritage''. 1984/85. | ||
Latest revision as of 08:18, 25 August 2015
Other Places is a trilogy of plays by English playwright Harold Pinter (1930-2008) [1]: Family Voices (1980), Victoria Station (1982), and A Kind of Alaska (1982) - they are part of the "Memory Plays" [2], a series of short plays and sketches Pinter wrote between 1968 and 1982 and are often staged together as one production.
Published in Other places : three plays, by Harold Pinter. Methuen, 1982.
Contents
The original text
Family Voices [3] is a 1980 radio play for three voices - it exposes the story of a mother, son, and dead husband and father through a series of letters that the mother and son have written to one another and that each speaks aloud. The play is also performed live on stage as a "platform performance" with three actors speaking the three voices.
Victoria Station [4] is a 1982 short play for two actors and it consists of a radio dialogue between a minicab controller (or dispatcher) and a driver (#274) who is stopped by the side of "a dark park" in London, supposedly waiting further instructions.
A Kind of Alaska [5] is a 1982 one-act play for three actors, about a middle-aged woman who awakes out of a coma after thirty years.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1984: Staged by PACT in the State Theatre in Pretoria and in the Alexander Theatre in Johannesburg, directed by Bobby Heaney, with Graham Weir (Voice 1 in Family Voices), Shelagh Holliday (Voice 2 in Family Voices & Deborah in A Kind of Alaska)), Michael McCabe (Voice 3 in Family Voices & Controller in Victoria Station & Hornby in A Kind of Alaska), Frantz Dobrowsky (Driver in Victoria Station) and Jacqui Singer (Pauline in A Kind of Alaska). Designed by Andrew Botha.
Sources
PACT theatre programme, 1984.
PACT pamphlet Let Us Build a Heritage. 1984/85.
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