Greenland

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TitleGreenland
Year for Search1988
AuthorsBrenton, Howard [John](b. 1942)
Date Published1988
PublisherMethuen in association with the Royal Court Theatre
Place PublishedLondon
KeywordsEnglish author, Male author
Annotation

Two act play. The first act presents contemporary Britain almost as a dystopia. The second act is set seven hundred years in the future in an apparently anarchist eutopia. The author describes it as the culmination of his attempts to create a utopia on the stage, preceded by Sore Throats (first performed in 1978 at the Royal Shakespear Company's Warehouse Theatre in London), available in his Sore Throats & Sonnets of Love and Opposition (London: Eyre Methuen, 1979), 5-31; and with the subtitle "An Intimate Play in Two Acts" in his Plays: One (London: Methuen, 1986), 337-90; and Bloody Poetry. London: Methuen, 1985 (first performed in 1984 at the Foco Novo Theatre in Hampstead, England).
Info Notes

First performed at the Royal Court Theatre May 26, 1988. U.S. premiere at the Famous Door Theatre, Chicago, in January 1994. 
Author Note

(b. 1942)
Full Text

1988 Brenton, Howard [John] (b. 1942). Greenland. London: Methuen in association with the Royal Court Theatre. First performed at the Royal Court Theatre May 26, 1988. U.S. premiere at the Famous Door Theatre, Chicago, in January 1994. PSt

Two act play. The first act presents contemporary Britain almost as a dystopia. The second act is set seven hundred years in the future in an apparently anarchist eutopia. The author describes it as the culmination of his attempts to create a utopia on the stage, preceded by Sore Throats (first performed in 1978 at the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Warehouse Theatre in London), available in his Sore Throats & Sonnets of Love and Opposition (London: Eyre Methuen, 1979), 5-31; and with the subtitle “An Intimate Play in Two Acts” in his Plays: One (London: Methuen, 1986), 337-90; and Bloody Poetry. London: Methuen, 1985 (first performed in 1984 at the Foco Novo Theatre in Hampstead, England).