Roy Kift

Roy Kift ( born January 30, 1943 in Bideford, Devon ) is an English writer.

Life

Roy Kift studied at the University of Wales in Aberystwyth Romance; he graduated in 1964 with the degree of BA from. 1965-1968 he studied acting training at the Drama Centre London. He then worked as an actor in Sheffield, Newcastle, London and Amsterdam. Since 1970 he is full-time writer and translator. He is the author of plays, nonfiction and children's books and translated plays, non-fiction, academic books in the social and cultural history as well as exhibition catalogs from German, French and Italian into English.

2014 was Roy Kift Dagmar Kift, a postdoctoral historian, married. Together they have two daughters.

Honors and Awards

Works (selection)

Plays

  • And Betty Martin ... (1962 )
  • The Continuing Tale of the Super times (1968, premiere Sheffield Playhouse 1970)
  • Mary Mary (1970, first performance at the Theatre Upstairs, Royal Court Theatre, London)
  • Genesis (1971, world premiere at the Freehold Theatre, London )
  • Downers (1974, premiere Bradford University)
  • The Complete Whole Earth Catalogue (1976, premiere Donmar Theatre, London )
  • Smile for Jesus and the Cameraman (1976, premiere ICA, London)
  • Cakewalk (1976, premiere Hampstead Theatre, London)
  • Happy and Glorious (1977, premiere Almost Free Theatre, London )
  • Land of Hope and Glory (1978, World Premiere Theatre Royal Stratford East )
  • Stronger than Superman (1980, premiere GRIPS Theater, Berlin, translated into 21 languages)
  • Joy (1984, libretto, composer Susanne Erding Premiere:. Kiel Opera House )
  • Dreams of Beating Time ( 1992)
  • Camp Comedy (1996, published in "The Theatre of the Holocaust Vol.2" University of Wisconsin Press, 1999. Premiere Legnica, Poland September 2012. Invited to the Warsaw Theatre Meetings, April 2013 )
  • Cathedral of Delusion (2005)
  • The true story of Adam and Eve (2011, also in English)

Guide

  • Tour the Ruhr. The English Language Guide. Plaintext Verlag, 4th revised and updated edition, plain text Verlag, Essen 2011, ISBN 978-3-88474-815-2
  • The Wupper Valley. Wuppertal, Solingen, Remscheid and the Bergisch land. Plaintext Verlag, Essen 2006, ISBN 978-3-89861-520-4
  • Dusseldorf, Aachen and the Lower Rhine. The English Language Guide. Plaintext Verlag, Essen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89861-892-2

Children's Books

  • Franz, Anna and the bill spirits. ( Illustrations: Lajos Herpai ). Plaintext Verlag, Essen 1997, ISBN 978-3-88474-608-0

Drama

  • Reality and Illusion in the Theresienstadt Cabaret. In: Claude Schumacher ( ed.): Staging the Holocaust. The Shoah in drama and performance, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, inter alia, 1998, ISBN 978-0-521-62415-2, pp. 147-168
  • Singing in the Face of Death. A Study of Jewish Cabaret and Opera falling on the Holocaust. In: Rebecca Rovit / Alvin Goldberg ( ed.): Theatrical Performance in the Holocaust. Texts, Documents, Memoirs. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, inter alia, 1999, ISBN 0-8018-6167-5, pp. 125-132

Editorship

  • Europe ... a Poem. A German / English catalog and source collection. Plaintext Verlag, Essen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8375-0275-6
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