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Question:Steven Berkoff's Play East..

ii Need Information On Its First Performance && The 1990's Revival of East

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ii Need Information On Its First Performance && The 1990's Revival of East

Thanks In Advance

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-Only things i can find on his first performance to be honest =(

**Some of Berkoff's barbs clearly have hit home, because he is more on the margins now than he was when his first original play, East, roared on stage with its florid, pumped-up version of London vernacular and furious energy in 1975. East marked Berkoff as a major new talent; it was soon followed by such diverse achievements as his muscular adaptation of Kafka's Metamorphosis and the exquisitely languid version of Wilde's Salome.
**In 1975, Berkoff’s public persona suddenly shot off on a new trajectory when, already known for his adaptations of literacy classics by Kafka, Poe, Strindberg and Aeschylus, he staged his first original play, East, at the Edinburgh Festival. Berkoff’s performance in the original production of this drama about a gang of juvenile delinquents marked the first public appearance of his tough “East ender” subject position, a discourse that would have profound impact upon the whole of his subsequent career, stamping him with certain notoriety both on and off-stage. Looking back in a 1993 interview Berkoff declared; “I originate from the East End, although I don’t tawk lark Bob’ Oskins. I am not a professional East ender like Michael Caine. I have the roots, they have the fa?ade” (Curtis 1993). With his use of the word fa?ade, Berkoff hints at artifice and deception on the part of Hoskins and Caine, thereby appearing to dismiss them as “stage Cockneys” By contrast, he has set out to validate his own “East Ender” subject position through his invocation of genuine roots. To this end, Berkoff has appropriated two key strands of East End working-class culture, namely its street theatricality and folkloric villainy, in his attempt to authenticate his “in-yer-face” style of performance and his own “Notoriety”. As with his “Jewish” subject position, however, it is a discursive strategy that is not lacking in irony given that he was evidently quite happy to abandon his past when he went “up west” as a drama student.

Okay i cant find anything else sorry 8-) i triiiied :-|