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Exits and Entrances
Exits and Entrances
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Author: Athol Fugard Publisher: Dramatists Play Service (cover may change) Format: Softcover # of Pages: 36 Pub. Date: 2005 Edition: Acting ISBN-10: 0822220415 ISBN-13: 9780822220411 Cast Size: 2 male
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About
the Play:
Exits and Entrances has long been a favourite of acting teachers for Male Monologues.
Exits and Entrances is a
full-length drama by Athol Fugard. Focuses on the connections
between an idealistic young playwright and a fading middle-aged
actor – student and teacher, upstart and mentor. In Exits and
Entrances, a young playwright and an aging actor at opposite ends of
the career spectrum strike up a friendship that becomes a springboard
for questions about life, art, and why we all do what we do, day in
and day out, right up to old age.
Exits and Entrances is based directly on Athol Fugard's
own early formative experiences in South African theatre and the
effect that the legendary Afrikaans actor André Huguenet had on him
in shaping his own vision of theatre. Engulfed in a world defined by
the division of apartheid, a young man on the threshold of his career
as a playwright, addressed only as "The Playwright,"
prepares an arrogant and aging star whom he admires for the evening's
performance of Oedipus Rex. The action takes place in a series of
scenes set in various dressing rooms during which the confrontation
between two starkly differing realities plays out with humour, pathos
and dramatic power. The Playwright struggles to find his voice, and
the actor, who has reached the end of his career on the stage,
confronts his fear of no longer being admired, needed or wanted. As
they debate, the pair finds themselves at odds about why art matters
and the extent of its impact on the world. It is a play in which the
young man's optimism and hope balance the despair and disillusionment
of the aging actor. But, above all else, this is a play that
celebrates theatre and its abiding significance. From the two very
different perspectives of the young man and the old actor, Exits
and Entrances also reflects the search for a theatre of relevance
in an oppressive society.
Exits and Entrances received its world premiere in 2004 at the Fountain Theatre in East Hollywood, an intimate venue well-known for its award-winning plays, where it won numerous L.A. Ovation Awards and L.A. Drama Critics Circle Awards. As the rave reviews of the premiere in Los Angeles reveal, this is a
play that is intensely human and speaks to everyone. The New York premiere was in 2007 at Primary Stages, and its UK premiere
was in 2007 at The Assembly Rooms during the Edinburgh Fringe.
Cast: 2 male
What people say:
"[Fugard] can say more with a
single line than most playwrights convey in an entire
script…Paraphrasing the title, it's safe to say this drama, making
its memorable entrance into our consciousness, is unlikely to exit as
long as a theater exists for exceptional work." — Variety
"A thought-provoking, elegant
and engrossing new play by Athol Fugard." —
Hollywood Reporter
"Fugard remains the rare thing
he always was: a brilliant, fearless playwright, tapping into the
essence of what it feels like to be human…." — BackStage
West
"A rare playwright, who could
be a primary candidate for either the Nobel Prize in Literature or
the Nobel Peace Prize." — The New Yorker
About the Playwright:
Athol Fugard is an internationally acclaimed South African
playwright whose work deals with the political and social upheaval of
the apartheid system in South Africa. He was educated at the
University of Cape Town, and frequently directs and performs in his
plays which are regularly performed in theatres in South Africa,
Great Britain, the United States and around the world. Several of his
plays have been adapted for the screen and his novel Tsotsi was made
into a film that won the 2005 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language
Film. In 2011 he received a special Tony Award for Lifetime
Achievement in Theatre.
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