Peter Grimes

Name: Peter Grimes
Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd
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By: Sam Kinchin-Smith

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Hardcover | 5 June 2019 | Edition Number 1

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88 Pages

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17.2 x 11.9

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`Who can turn skies back and begin again?'

-Peter

This book contends that Peter Grimes, widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential operas of the 20th century, is also one of the British theatre's finest `lost' plays. Seeking to liberate Britten and Slater's work from the blinkered traditions of theatre and opera criticism, Sam Kinchin-Smith poses two questions:

If an opera was created like a play, and can be staged as a play, is it a play?
If a portion of its success and influence is the product of this newly identified theatrical engine, is it then a great play?

The answers involve Wagner and W.G. Sebald, George Crabbe and Complicite, Akenfield and Twin Peaks.

Challenging long-established narratives of post-war theatre history, this book makes a compelling case for why practitioners and scholars of performance ought to pay more attention to Britten and Slater's achievement - a milestone of unconventional English modernism - and perhaps to other operatic masterpieces too.

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