Manchester University Press
Conclusion
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Jacqueline Bolton
Abstract
In this original interview with Dennis Kelly conducted by the collection’s editors in the early summer of 2023, Bolton and Holden engage Dennis Kelly in an open and characteristically frank discussion about the writer’s two-decade body of work. This wide-ranging interview teases out Kelly’s thoughts on the distinctions between writing for film, television, and theatre; the underestimated power of truth; and his speculative plans for future works, providing new insight into the working practices of one of the UK’s most compelling writers.
Abstract
In this original interview with Dennis Kelly conducted by the collection’s editors in the early summer of 2023, Bolton and Holden engage Dennis Kelly in an open and characteristically frank discussion about the writer’s two-decade body of work. This wide-ranging interview teases out Kelly’s thoughts on the distinctions between writing for film, television, and theatre; the underestimated power of truth; and his speculative plans for future works, providing new insight into the working practices of one of the UK’s most compelling writers.
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents v
- List of illustrations vii
- Notes on contributors viii
- A foreword xii
- Introduction 1
- I Incubation 19
- 1 DNA in the classroom 21
- 2 Suspended in time and place 39
- 3 ‘I’ll teach you a thing or two’ 55
- II Antibodies 71
- 4 ‘Are you sick, yet? / Are you disgusted, yet?’ 73
- 5 Utopia 90
- 6 Beautiful doom 105
- 7 Subjectivity in Dennis Kelly’s early drama 118
- III False positives 135
- 8 ‘I just want it to be your words’ 137
- 9 ‘What is the difference between made up and real?’ 152
- 10 ‘What else isn’t true?’, or, Dennis Kelly’s expressionism 170
- 11 Atopia 184
- IV Variants 201
- 12 ‘Now look, are you going to tell me a story or not?’ 203
- 13 Dennis Kelly’s The Gods Weep at the Royal Shakespeare Company 217
- 14 Performing stories, engaging audiences 233
- Conclusion 251
- Index 264
- Plates 267
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents v
- List of illustrations vii
- Notes on contributors viii
- A foreword xii
- Introduction 1
- I Incubation 19
- 1 DNA in the classroom 21
- 2 Suspended in time and place 39
- 3 ‘I’ll teach you a thing or two’ 55
- II Antibodies 71
- 4 ‘Are you sick, yet? / Are you disgusted, yet?’ 73
- 5 Utopia 90
- 6 Beautiful doom 105
- 7 Subjectivity in Dennis Kelly’s early drama 118
- III False positives 135
- 8 ‘I just want it to be your words’ 137
- 9 ‘What is the difference between made up and real?’ 152
- 10 ‘What else isn’t true?’, or, Dennis Kelly’s expressionism 170
- 11 Atopia 184
- IV Variants 201
- 12 ‘Now look, are you going to tell me a story or not?’ 203
- 13 Dennis Kelly’s The Gods Weep at the Royal Shakespeare Company 217
- 14 Performing stories, engaging audiences 233
- Conclusion 251
- Index 264
- Plates 267
