MY GOAT

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=80 BGCOLOR="#330066" TEXT="#F7F7FF" bgproperties="fixed" background="222467f1dkblkv.gif"> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE=" michele celeste/"><U><B>home</B></U></A><B> /</B><B> michele celeste/</B><B> </B><A HREF="id107.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="NEWS"><U><B>NEWS</B></U></A><B>/</B><B> </B></div> <div> <B>MY GOAT</B></div> <bR> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=25% BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <B> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="103" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#BF0000" BORDERCOLORDARK="#BF0000" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 22 ><NOBR><div> <B>MY GOAT</B></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id109.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="MY GOAT REVIEWS"><U><B>REVIEWS</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A 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FACE="Rockwell" ><B>WORLD PREMIERE</B></FONT></div> <div> <B>Cockpit Theatre</B></div> <div> <B>London, 01 September 1994 </B></div> <div> <B>SOHO THEATRE COMPANY</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 228 ><NOBR><bR> <div> SHAZAH.......................Anna Savva</div> <div> CARLOS......................Jonathan Arun</div> <bR> <div> DIRECTOR...................Burt Caesar</div> <div> DESIGN........................Tom Piper</div> <div> LIGHTING......................Jason Taylor</div> <div> SOUND......................Richard Heacock</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 111 ><NOBR><div> PLACE</div> <div> A bombed out block of flats in West Beirut, Lebanon</div> <div> TIME  </div> <div> Between June 1982 and February 1983</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="454" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#330066" BORDERCOLORDARK="#330066" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 138 WIDTH="442"><div> <B>TIME OUT </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>CRITICS' CHOICE</B></div> <div> <B>"Michele Celeste's hostage play is an intriguing black comedy that thrives on the tension between an Arab woman and her Spanish kidnap victim."</B></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="503" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#BF0000" BORDERCOLORDARK="#BF0000" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 48 WIDTH="491"><div> <B>WRITER'S NOTE</B></div> <div> <B>(from the world premiere programme)</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 138 WIDTH="491"><div> <B>"My goat original inspiration goes back to 1943 when Neapolitan women captured routed Germans to make up for loss of husbands and sons transported by the Nazis.</B></div> <div> <B>When a documentary on British television brought to my attention the plight of some Arab Women, desperate enough to kidnap someone to get their relatives back, the play was born."</B></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="3e613040.jpg" border=0 width="275" height="260" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="3e79f9e0.jpg" border=0 width="159" height="414" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <B>"...</B><B> It's </B></div> <div> <B>an </B></div> <div> <B>affecting </B></div> <div> <B>piece, </B></div> <div> <B>beautifully </B></div> <div> <B>acted, </B></div> <div> <B>directed </B></div> <div> <B>and </B></div> <div> <B>produced</B><B>..."</B><B> </B></div> <div> <B>Time Out</B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="505" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#BF0000" BORDERCOLORDARK="#BF0000" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 267 WIDTH="493"><div> <B>WHAT'S ON MAGAZINE - London</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>"My Goat approaches human cruelty and weakness humanistically, placing people under too close a scrutiny to allow for broad judgmentalism. In the process of entertaining, these plays succeed in humanising evil through its everyday absurdity and pathos. Celeste wanted to invest My Goat with those qualities which, to many minds, made his Hanging the President the most powerful new play of 1988. They are qualities which many playwrights try to place naturally on the stage but fail. One the writer calls "humour in desperation"; the other, its graver corollary, "the transcendent tenacity of hope." </B></div> <div> <B>Sam Willets. </B></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="477" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#330066" BORDERCOLORDARK="#330066" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 152 WIDTH="465"><div> <IMG SRC="3c495980.jpg" border=0 width="149" height="152" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><B>The goat's name? </B></div> <div> <B>Emma </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>(</B><B>Poster of the Soho Theatre Company production)  </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>"A little dynamo of a play." </B></div> <div> <B>The Stage</B><B> </B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 24 WIDTH="465"><div> <A HREF="id109.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="MY GOAT REVIEWS"><U><B>MY GOAT - REVIEWS</B></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="409" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#BF0000" BORDERCOLORDARK="#BF0000" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 130 WIDTH="397"><div> <A HREF="id213.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="LA CAPRA"><U><B><IMG SRC="3c246730.jpg" border=0 width="70" height="115" ALIGN="RIGHT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> <div> <B>Clicca l'immagine per andare alla </B><B>versione italiana</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Click the icon to go to t</B><B>he Italian version</B></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></B></div> <div> <B>===</B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>