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Blackta by Martello-White
by Martello-White, Nathaniel | PB | Good
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Good
- Seller Notes
- Binding
- Paperback
- Weight
- 0 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
- No
- ISBN
- 9781408173596
- Book Title
- Blackta
- Item Length
- 7.8in
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Publication Year
- 2012
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.2in
- Genre
- Drama
- Topic
- European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Item Width
- 5.1in
- Item Weight
- 4.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 80 Pages
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'Get, I'm getting outta here, man, I'm getting outta here, the lines getting blurred - it's blurred - that line between normality and madness is muffled. and rah, I'm getting urges, brov.'....Welcome to the world's most unusual talent contest. Behind the scenes, competitors are laughing and brawling, parading their hopes and fears in front of each other, their loves and losses. But there's a bigger fight to be had on stage: who's going to win? The black, the yellow or the brown guy'....This hilariously biting satire by Nathaniel Martello-White, directed by Young Vic Artistic Director, David Lan, exposes the highs and lows of making it as a black actor - a 'blackta'.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-10
140817359x
ISBN-13
9781408173596
eBay Product ID (ePID)
10038418105
Product Key Features
Book Title
Blackta
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year
2012
Genre
Drama
Number of Pages
80 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
7.8in
Item Height
0.2in
Item Width
5.1in
Item Weight
4.3 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pr6113
Reviews
A sparky satire about the life of black British thesps ... Martello-White is excellent at demotic street dialogue and joshing banter, Blackta is an assured and discomforting play, ricocheting between slangy chat, self-critical satire, searing rage, and fantasies., The play has many glories, not least its searing rhetoric, its unflinching honesty and its moments of sublime physical comedy ... This is not a parable of the acting profession or of some crushed racial minority. It's a story of everyday ambition, of life in the urban rat race, of perseverance triumphing over adversity. And it contains perhaps the finest, and funniest, speech about slavery I've heard., Martello-White's salty, realist dialogue has the unmistakeable tang of truth to it ... the unfairness of 'the thing' is spelled out powerfully in Martello-White's promising and original debut, which never has to preach to get its message across., Crackling with the author's flair for producing street-wise demotic, edgy banter . combining an acute ear for dialogue with a bold and eloquent visual concept, Blackta is a genuinely promising and original debut, Nathaniel Martello-White's debut play is concerned with more than just the various hurdles faced by black acts&actors; it also encompasses broader themes of race, identity and masculinity. The play rattles along, a little bit like Beckett on amphetamines, presenting a frantic hamster wheel world in which its characters - named for their skin tone: black, brown, yellow - are forever being tested...The play has a lot to say and for much of the time it does so with humour and verve, Nathaniel Martello-White's rambunctious writing debut begins as a satire about struggling British actors, but soon launches into a lacerating gallop through masculinity at bay ... his demotic writing is drenched in testosterone. Blackta is angry as a bagful of spanners., A sparky satire about the life of black British thesps . Martello-White is excellent at demotic street dialogue and joshing banter, If the white establishment views black people in sub-human terms, Martello-White does not. He has written detailed human parts with authentic, poetic voices, rooted in London...At its best, Blackta examines what it means to be a black male in modern Britain...David Lan's production is edgy and unflinching. A sensitive balance is struck between comedy and despair., Crackling with the author's flair for producing street-wise demotic, edgy banter ... combining an acute ear for dialogue with a bold and eloquent visual concept, Blackta is a genuinely promising and original debut, Nathaniel Martello-White's debut play is concerned with more than just the various hurdles faced by black actors; it also encompasses broader themes of race, identity and masculinity. The play rattles along, a little bit like Beckett on amphetamines, presenting a frantic hamster wheel world in which its characters - named for their skin tone: black, brown, yellow - are forever being tested...The play has a lot to say and for much of the time it does so with humour and verve, Martello-White's salty, realist dialogue has the unmistakeable tang of truth to it . the unfairness of 'the thing' is spelled out powerfully in Martello-White's promising and original debut, which never has to preach to get its message across.
Copyright Date
2012
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2012-518856
Dewey Decimal
822.92
Series
Modern Plays Ser.
Dewey Edition
23
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