The Borderline Trilogy is a cycle of three full-length plays (“Well”, “War” and “Wall”, or “Puits”, “Pétrole” and “Paranoïa”), in which an arbitrary division of territory leads to the creation of two distinct nations with different languages, different cultures, different aspirations. The dominance of one over the other leads to suffering, conflict and war. To
The Borderline Trilogy
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The Borderline Trilogy
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The Borderline Trilogy is a cycle of three full-length plays (“Well”, “War” and “Wall”, or “Puits”, “Pétrole” and “Paranoïa”), in which an arbitrary division of territory leads to the creation of two distinct nations with different languages, different cultures, different aspirations. The dominance of one over the other leads to suffering, conflict and war. To
The Borderline Trilogy
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This is an ambitious project that would need far more money and support than I can muster. I got as far as a brief presentation in English: The Borderline Trilogy is a cycle of three full-length plays (“Well”, “War” and “Wall”, or “Puits”, “Pétrole” and “Paranoïa”), in which an arbitrary division of territory leads to
The Borderline Trilogy
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The Borderline Trilogy is a cycle of three full-length plays (“Well”, “War” and “Wall”, or “Puits”, “Pétrole” and “Paranoïa”), in which an arbitrary division of territory leads to the creation of two distinct nations with different languages, different cultures, different aspirations. The dominance of one over the other leads to suffering, conflict and war. To
The Borderline Trilogy
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The Borderline Trilogy is a cycle of three full-length plays (“Well”, “War” and “Wall”, or “Puits”, “Pétrole” and “Paranoïa”), in which an arbitrary division of territory leads to the creation of two distinct nations with different languages, different cultures, different aspirations. The dominance of one over the other leads to suffering, conflict and war. To
The Last Dance – Frontier Theatre Production
FRONTIER THEATRE PRODUCTIONS PROUDLY PRESENTS Spring and The Last Dance Following the success of our first production, The Lovers of Viorne by Marguerite Duras we are excited to tell you about our next production, which runs from October 18th (preview) until November 5th 2017. The Press Night will be on October 20th. This
Denise Beryl Hooper (22.06.1927 – 03.04.2016)
Denise Beryl Hooper, my mother, was a very modest woman. She went about her life quietly, discreetly, and she never liked to make a fuss. She didn’t set the world on fire, but I would argue that there are quite enough people doing that already. She actually did something much better than that : she built
R.I.P. Oliver Sacks
It was Harold Pinter that introduced me to the work of Oliver Sacks via his play “A Kind of Alaska”. His books inspired me to write “I Forgot More Than You’ll Ever Know” which eventually won Harold’s approval. I chose to quote Sacks for an epigraph to the play: “To restore the human subject at
Wilkommen, bienvenue…
Welcome to mitchhooper.com! Feel free to browse around and see if anything takes your fancy. This site is a work in progress and the English part tends to lag behind a little, so let me know if anything’s missing or not working properly. Since Harold Pinter’s death, I’ve somewhat turned my back on English theatre
The Last Dance
A retired couple sit looking out to sea. Early evening. Late summer. She may be dying. He’s worried he’s losing his memory. But they love each other. Extract: Silence. They look at the sea. PETER What we call love is impossible to define. It has a different meaning for each of us. To define it