Dominic Allen (British playwright)
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Dominic Allen is a British theatre actor and playwright, and one of four company directors of the theatre collective Belt Up Theatre
.
He was educated at the University of York
between 2006 and 2009 in Linguistics
and English Literature
.
Belt Up Theatre
Belt Up Theatre are a British theatre company based in the north of England. They were set up in 2008 in the city of York. Run as a collective, the company is led by directors Dominic J Allen, Jethro Compton, James Wilkes and Alexander Wright.-Macbeth:...
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He was educated at the University of York
University of York
The University of York , is an academic institution located in the city of York, England. Established in 1963, the campus university has expanded to more than thirty departments and centres, covering a wide range of subjects...
between 2006 and 2009 in Linguistics
Linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context....
and English Literature
English literature
English literature is the literature written in the English language, including literature composed in English by writers not necessarily from England; for example, Robert Burns was Scottish, James Joyce was Irish, Joseph Conrad was Polish, Dylan Thomas was Welsh, Edgar Allan Poe was American, J....
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Stage plays
- OdysseyOdysseyThe Odyssey is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is, in part, a sequel to the Iliad, the other work ascribed to Homer. The poem is fundamental to the modern Western canon, and is the second—the Iliad being the first—extant work of Western literature...
(2010) after HomerHomerIn the Western classical tradition Homer , is the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, and is revered as the greatest ancient Greek epic poet. These epics lie at the beginning of the Western canon of literature, and have had an enormous influence on the history of literature.When he lived is...
. - Lorca is Dead (2010) at York Theatre RoyalYork Theatre RoyalThe York Theatre Royal is a theatre in St. Leonard's Place, York, England, which dates back to 1744. The theatre currently seats 847 people. This reduced capacity takes into account removal of the mixing position seats and the stage side boxes which are normally not sold...
, telling the story of Federico Garcia LorcaFederico García LorcaFederico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca was a Spanish poet, dramatist and theatre director. García Lorca achieved international recognition as an emblematic member of the Generation of '27. He is believed to be one of thousands who were summarily shot by anti-communist death squads...
as told by the Surrealists of the Paris Group. - The TrialThe TrialThe Trial is a novel by Franz Kafka, first published in 1925. One of Kafka's best-known works, it tells the story of a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, with the nature of his crime revealed neither to him nor the reader.Like Kafka's other novels, The Trial was never...
(2009) after Kafka - The OresteiaThe OresteiaThe Oresteia is a trilogy of Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus which concerns the end of the curse on the House of Atreus. When originally performed it was accompanied by Proteus, a satyr play that would have been performed following the trilogy; it has not survived...
(2009) after AeschylusAeschylusAeschylus was the first of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose work has survived, the others being Sophocles and Euripides, and is often described as the father of tragedy. His name derives from the Greek word aiskhos , meaning "shame"...
with James WilkesJames Wilkes (theatre)James Wilkes is a British theatre practitioner and one of four company directors of theatre collective Belt Up Theatre.... - Morbid Curiosity (2008)
- Profile of a Lunatic (2001)
External links
- Doollee guide to Playwright and Plays
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/aug/10/the-trial-fringe-review Lyn Gardner's review of The Trial, The Guardian, 10 August 2009