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Record Nr.

UNINA9910971724203321

Autore

Bean Richard <1956->

Titolo

Pitcairn / / Richard Bean

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Oberon Books : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2014

ISBN

9781350208582

1350208582

9781783196067

1783196068

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (207 p.)

Collana

Oberon modern plays

Disciplina

813.54

Soggetti

Drama & Performance Studies

Plays, playscripts

Theatre studies

Drama

Pitcairn Island (Pitcairn Islands) Drama

Pitcairn Islands Pitcairn Island

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Half-title Page""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Characters""; ""Prologue 1""; ""Act 1""; ""Act 1 Scene 1""; ""Act 2""; ""Act 2 Scene 1""; ""Act 2 Scene 2""; ""Act 2 Scene 3""; ""Act 2 Scene 4""; ""Act 2 Scene 5""; ""Act 2 Scene 6""; ""Act 2 Scene 7""; ""Act 2 Scene 8""; ""Act 3""; ""Act 3 Scene 1""; ""Act 3 Scene 2""; ""Act 3 Scene 3""; ""Act 3 Scene 4""; ""Act 3 Scene 6""; ""Act 4""; ""Act 4 Scene 1""; ""Act 4 Scene 2""; ""Act 4 Scene 3""; ""Act 4 Scene 4""; ""Act 4 Scene 5""; ""Act 4 Scene 6""; ""Act 4 Scene 7""; ""Act 4 Scene 8""; ""Act 4 Scene 9""; ""Act 5""

""Act 5 Scene 1""""Epilogue""

Sommario/riassunto

In the southern Pacific Ocean on the remote island of Pitcairn, the infamous mutineers of The Bounty, led by Fletcher Christian (or should it be Titreano?) begin to establish a new society alongside their Tahitian followers. Tensions quickly swell as the British settlers refuse to relinquish the vices of their past. Social, racial and sexual schisms render the once paradisiac island into a hotbed of discord and bloody



violence. Pitcairn vividly explores the conflict between personal freedoms and public responsibilities. Pitcairn is Richard Bean's brutal telling of the colonisation of the remote island of Pitcairn by Fletcher Christian and the Bounty mutineers. The play charts--with salty humour and growing horror--the spiralling descent of the colony from a new Eden of freedom and equality to a brutal dystopia.