InstantForum.NET v4.1.4Theatre Bristol Forumshttp://tbf.winonaesolutions.net/webmaster@theatrebristol.co.uk/Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:33:44 GMT20http://tbf.winonaesolutions.net/Topic618-14-1.aspx[b][center]Lovefuries by David Ian Rabey offers a double bill of performance pieces that explode national and personal pressures to keep silent, and explore the surprising and shocking resurgences of life that break through grief.<br><br>In [i]The Contracting Sea[/i], the fiancée of a just-shipwrecked sailor is challenged by a feminine elemental force of catastrophe to throw off the shackles of her common humanity. The second play, [i]The Hanging Judge[/i], explores from the inside an occurrence of sexual abuse in a contemporary Welsh context, and how one survivor finds the courage to discover defiance. This second volume of dramatist-director Rabey’s plays for his own Lurking Truth/Gwir sy’n Llechu theatre company also includes the short two-hander [i]Bite or Suck[/i], completing a collection of innovative drama that restlessly explores what is possible at the extreme boundaries of human language and physicality.<br><br>David Ian Rabey is Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies at Aberystwyth University, and Artistic Director of Lurking Truth/Gwir sy’n Llechu theatre company, which he co-founded in 1985.<br><br>For more info, or to purchase a copy of the book, go to:<br><br>[url]http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/ppbooks.php?isbn=9781841501840[/url]<br><br>Have Facebook? Join the Debates at [url]http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=11657301359[/url][/center][/b]Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:33:42 GMTMelanie_22921