Benjamin Britten and Montagu Slater's Peter Grimes

Sam Kinchin-Smith

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English

Routledge
05 June 2019

Performance art; Theatre Studies; Opera

Series: The Fourth Wall

‘Who can turn skies back and begin again?’

-Peter

This book contends that Peter Grimes, widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential operas of the 20th century, is also one of the British theatre’s finest ‘lost’ plays. Seeking to liberate Britten and Slater’s work from the blinkered traditions of theatre and opera criticism, Sam Kinchin-Smith poses two questions:

If an opera was created like a play, and can be staged as a play, is it a play?

If a portion of its success and influence is the product of this newly identified theatrical engine, is it then a great play?

The answers involve Wagner and W.G. Sebald, George Crabbe and Complicité, Akenfield and Twin Peaks.

Challenging long-established narratives of post-war theatre history, this book makes a compelling case for why practitioners and scholars of performance ought to pay more attention to Britten and Slater’s achievement – a milestone of unconventional English modernism – and perhaps to other operatic masterpieces too.

By: Sam Kinchin-Smith
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 172mm, Width: 119mm,
Weight: 172g
ISBN: 9781138380486
ISBN 10: 1138380482
Series: The Fourth Wall
Pages: 88
Publication Date: 05 June 2019
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Grimes on the Beach 2. Opera as Theatre: Why Peter Grimes is a Play 3. The Suffolk Renaissance: Why Peter Grimes is a Great Play

Sam Kinchin-Smith, like Peter Grimes, was born in Suffolk and now lives on/in a boat. He works for the London Review of Books and has written for publications including the New Statesman, Condé Nast Traveller and the Independent.