Howard Colyer - Böcker

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.

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A diary in haiku - life at a rate of seventeen syllables a day.

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A diary in haiku - life at a rate of seventeen syllables a day.

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A diary in haiku - life at a rate of seventeen syllables a day.

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A diary in haiku - life at a rate of seventeen syllables a day.

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The Civil War is drawing to an end in Russia. The White Army is disintegrating and a wave of refugees is about to descend on Turkey, and then spread across Europe. Bulgakov's play follows the fate of a small group of Russians from the Crimea to Co...

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A play about marriage, lust, adultery, corruption and deceit - all aided by the Mandrake Infusion. It is Machiavelli's greatest sex farce, and a landmark of the Italian Renaissance. This adaptation opened at the Jack Studio Theatre in London on 28...

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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 Wa...

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He wants to get married; and he doesn't want to get married - he doesn't know what to do. But he has a friend who knows what's best for everyone. Marriage is Gogol's farce about desire, matchmakers, Imperial Russian speed dating and much else besi...

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The war is over and the hero returns. But what good is a hero without a war? What else does he know but warfare? And his city has managed without him. The gap left by his departure has closed. Yet the problems he left behind have remained. They ha...

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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 adaptat...

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Late in the evening on 11 March, 1938, a man sits in a Jewish bar in Vienna as the German army invades Austria. The other guests flee, as does the owner, but he remains to contemplate his past and his future - bleak though that may be. "With ...

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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...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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.

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Gogol's greatest play - indeed one of the best comedies ever written - freely adapted for studio productions.

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Thirteen seasons in three lines, 2003/4 - 2015/16, short and sharp match reports from the Den.

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Dennis Oldshaw finally managed to escape his office job and devote himself to painting, yet now he fears for his life; and he reflects about his past, in particular about the day which he feels tested and defined him.

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There was a prowler in the garden - so Kevin Boyd had to respond. A one act play with one character in one room.

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Two related one act plays with one character each - Brocklehurst and Sidmouth - nephew and uncle - two marooned men.

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A one act play with four characters. An interrogation and a ghost story. A man's wife has vanished. He can't remember when or why; nor can he remember his own name. "The relentlessness of this nightmarish scenario transfixes us to the last.&q...

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Gogol's story of a clerk in St. Petersburg adapted for the stage, and first performed at the Brockley Jack Studio Theatre in London on 19 January, 2011. "An unforgettable production conjuring the alienating city of St Petersburg under the rig...

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What is an individual but a collection of memories on legs? Take away the memories and what's left? Legs. And even they aren't working well any more. Homework is a one act play with two characters and thirty phone calls. It opened at the Brockley ...

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Franz Kafka's Letter to my Father adapted for the stage. It opened at the Brockley Jack Theatre in London on Tuesday, 17 January, 2012. 'The tortured life of Franz Kafka provides the material for this fascinating play.' William Russell, Reviews Ga...

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A diary in haiku : three short lines per day : an autobiography in fragments.

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Gogol's short story, Diary of a Madman, adapted for the stage. "This is a play about an individual's descent into madness, brought to life by a brilliant trio of actor David Bromley, director Scott Le Crass, and author Howard Colyer. But what...

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Troy has fallen. The city has been destroyed and its people slaughtered. The few survivors are prisoners of the Greek Army which is waiting to sail back to Greece. This army is disintegrating in the wake of its victory, but the killing continues. ...

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A diary in haiku - life at a rate of seventeen syllables a day.

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