Martin Jones
Vanishing Points
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In Nebraska in 1972, three members of the Peak family, father, mother, and teenage daughter, were murdered. Beth, an adult daughter, who was not home at the time the crimes were committed, must come to terms with the apparently senseless act and find a way to live with the horror. 'The nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.' This line from Wallace Stevens's poem The Snowman perfectly reflects both the style and the content of VANISHING POINTS. This play is and isn't a story about murder. It exists and does not exist as sensational melodrama. What we see is not necessarily what we get because Martin Jones is rare among contempora…
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In Nebraska in 1972, three members of the Peak family, father, mother, and teenage daughter, were murdered. Beth, an adult daughter, who was not home at the time the crimes were committed, must come to terms with the apparently senseless act and find a way to live with the horror. 'The nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.' This line from Wallace Stevens's poem The Snowman perfectly reflects both the style and the content of VANISHING POINTS. This play is and isn't a story about murder. It exists and does not exist as sensational melodrama. What we see is not necessarily what we get because Martin Jones is rare among contemporary playwrights: He uses the stage to make visible the invisible. Ghosts inhabit VANISHING POINTS, but not the Halloween kind. Jones conjures up those psychological specters populating Henry James's The Turn of the Screw-emotions that refuse to die, grieves that will not stay buried… Jones avoids conventional docudrama. His script unfolds in blatantly theatrical fragments, brief scenes, in a lyrical mix of expressionism and impressionism. Instead of facts and figures from a typical case study, here dreams, nightmares and pain assume tangible shapes… …this further solidifies his reputation. With depressing frequency the majority of new playwrights give us media realism. Too often their influences are television and film, genres where photographic imagery can reflect the material world but not the unconscious. It takes a play like VANISHING POINTS to reveal what only the theater can capture: 'The nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.' Richard Stayton, The Los Angeles Herald Examiner
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-88145-096-5
- EAN: 9780881450965
- Produktnummer: 28233870
- Verlag: Broadway Play Publishing Inc
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1993
- Seitenangabe: 96 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D0.5 cm 133 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 133
Über den Autor
Martin Jones has been a professional musician since 1982 and has performed all over the world. A self-confessed foodie, he has developed a taste for the gourmet lifestyle, and his knowledge of both countries and the gastronomic delights to be found there can easily be found in his writing. He is quite new to authoring and only started writing his first book in January 2018. He completed the first one in August 2018, and so far he has written five books while holding down a full-time job as head of music for a college in Hull, England, where he lives. He still performs regularly across the UK.
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