- Paperback: 96 pages
- Publisher: Nick Hern Books (31 May 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1854596659
- ISBN-13: 978-1854596659
- Product Dimensions: 20.2 x 12.8 x 0.6 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 80,875 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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One of the best new plays ever presented by the National Theatre. --Sunday Times
Fascinating, funny and sometimes deeply moving...Van Gogh would surely have recognised Wright's compelling theatrical portrait...This is biodrama of a high order. --Daily Telegraph
A brilliant portrait of the artist as a young man...Nicholas Wright's excellent play about Van Gogh's early years in London not only avoids the usual lust-for-lifery but offers a wholly believable portrait of the disruptive nature of artistic talent. --Guardian
Fascinating, funny and sometimes deeply moving...Van Gogh would surely have recognised Wright's compelling theatrical portrait...This is biodrama of a high order. --Daily Telegraph
A brilliant portrait of the artist as a young man...Nicholas Wright's excellent play about Van Gogh's early years in London not only avoids the usual lust-for-lifery but offers a wholly believable portrait of the disruptive nature of artistic talent. --Guardian
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Winner of the Olivier Award for BEST PLAY 2003.
Brixton, 1873. A brash young Dutchman rents a room in the house of an English widow. Three years later he returns to Europe on the first step of a journey which will end in breakdown, death and immortality. Based on the true facts of Vincent van Gogh's early life in London, Vincent in Brixton is about the transforming effect of love, sex and artistic adventure on unformed talent. It traces the birth of genius.
Brixton, 1873. A brash young Dutchman rents a room in the house of an English widow. Three years later he returns to Europe on the first step of a journey which will end in breakdown, death and immortality. Based on the true facts of Vincent van Gogh's early life in London, Vincent in Brixton is about the transforming effect of love, sex and artistic adventure on unformed talent. It traces the birth of genius.
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For me, it's once or never. Let me kiss you., 30 April 2005
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This review is from: Vincent in Brixton (Nick Hern Books) (Paperback)
Capturing the spirit of a young man on the verge of losing himself in his stung and strung emotions, Vincent in Brixton succeeds as a suggester, an appetizer of sorts, a brief encounter with van Gogh-before painting, before madness.
It is a slight read, an hour's worth, and dabbles healthily into not only van Gogh's nature, or his appreciation for melancholy, but others attraction to it as well.
Having lived in London already, Vincent is moving, on a whim, into the boarding house of Ursula Loyer, a widower who runs the house and a school with her young daughter Eugenie. Sam Plowman is the other boarder, fledgling artist and would be competition for Eugenie.
But the story turns up a notch when it takes an surprising turn, and gets into the meat of what van Gogh was about, a man unafraid of himself, to let flow his feelings and impulses. As his heart was forming, so was his art. This was a time before he was painting and in the play he first begins to find an emotional value in drawing. His appreciation for empty chairs, rain-soaked vagabonds and beaten up boots only appears after his life, lead in part by his vaunting emotional state, ceases being bourgeois-interested, and his heart breaks.
Vincent in Brixton is an illumination of a different man, with a different soul. Before Holland, loneliness, addiction and obsession and a revolution in expression immortalized him, he was a drifter like many others, following his heart and come what may...
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