From morning to midnight /

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Author / Creator:	Kelly, Dennis, 1970- author, translator.
Uniform title:	Von Morgens bis Mitternachts. English
Imprint:	London : Oberon Books : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013.
Description:	1 online resource (88 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Oberon modern plays Oberon modern plays.
Subject:	Kaiser, Georg, -- 1878-1945. -- Von morgens bis mitternachts. -- English -- Adaptations. Von morgens bis mitternachts (Kaiser, Georg) Life change events -- Psychological aspects -- Drama. Self-destructive behavior -- Drama. Life change events -- Psychological aspects. Self-destructive behavior. Adaptations. Drama. Drama.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12624577

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Other uniform titles:	Adaptation of (work): Kaiser, Georg, 1878-1945. Von morgens bis mitternachts. English.
ISBN:	9781350207240 1350207241 9781783190133
Notes:	Translated and adapted from Georg Kaiser's German masterpiece by Dennis Kelly. Online resource; description from resource and publisher's metadata (viewed on 18 December 2020).
Summary:	From Morning To Midnight, among the most frequently performed German Expressionist works, charts the life of a cashier who steals money from the bank and flees to Berlin. The un-named protagonist's bid to escape his middle-class daily life is ultimately frustrated. It is a popular piece in which Kaiser satirized the cheapness and futility of modern society. His hero, a kind of machine-age Everyman, searches everywhere for some kind of fulfilment--in commercial sex, in salvationist religion--but discovers through a series of nightmarish episodes that the world is deceitful and illusory. In the end, disillusioned and pursued by the police, he takes his own life. This new version by Dennis Kelly, opened at the National Theatre's Lyttelton Theatre in November 2013, as part of the National's 50th Anniversary Season.
Standard no.:	10.5040/9781350207240.00000003 221100

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