Gilgamesh Plays (eBook)

The Tower of Gilgamesh and The Acts of Gilgamesh

Jonathan Bayliss (Autor)

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2018
286 Seiten
Drawbridge Press / Jonathan Bayliss Trust (Verlag)
978-0-9974641-0-8 (ISBN)

Infos

These stage plays, The Tower of Gilgamesh and The Acts of Gilgamesh, are loosely based on the Sumerian Gilgamesh legend. Together they form a comedic tragedy exploring - with humor, imagination, and spirited language - ideas about free will, love, creativity, friendship, and religion. It is in Sumer that civilization began: the first writing, numbering, accounting systems, the first literature, and, for better or worse, the Tower of Babel.

Inhalt

These two plays derive from the Sumerian Gilgamesh epic. Each may be produced independently of the other, except that the director of the second one (The Acts of Gilgamesh) should be aware of the introductory pages of the first (The Tower of Gilgamesh), which provide notes for the original quasi-legendary mise-en-scène and suggested casting.
The Tower of GilgameshPersons and Masks
Glossary and Production Notes
Prologue
Tablet One
Between dawn and sunrise in the square in front of Gilgamesh's headquarters.
Tablet Two
Gilgamesh's laboratory late at night.
Tablet Three
Gilgamesh's laboratory, arranged for a meeting.
Tablet Four
Gilgamesh's laboratory.
Tablet Five
Outside the temple sacristy before dawn on the day before New Year's.
Tablet Six
A space outside the temple, morning of New Year's Eve.
Tablet Seven
A space outside the temple, middle of the night.
The Acts of GilgameshPersons and Masks
Forescene
Tablet Eight
Uruk. Early nighttime in forum, by torchlight, just inside a city gate.
Tablet Nine
A simple cot inside a low lean-to.
Tablet Ten
The queen's reception chamber.
Tablet Eleven
Upper edge of an island's flat beach.
Tablet Twelve
A fieldstone altar outside Melchizedek's tent.
Tablet Thirteen
An open space suggesting buried ruins on a truncated hill.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.4.2018
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater
• Schlagworte: Ancient Near East • cuneiform tablet • Engidu • Enkidu • Inanna • stage play • Tragedy • Uruk
• ISBN-10: 0-9974641-0-0 / 0997464100
• ISBN-13: 978-0-9974641-0-8 / 9780997464108