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BARNES PLAYS: 2
RED NOSES, THE SPIRIT OF MAN, NOBODY HERE BUT US CHICKENS, SUNSETS AND GLORIES, BYE BYE COLUMBUS |
| By: |
Peter Barnes |
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Electronic book text |
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£17.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1408176386 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781408176382 |
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| Publisher: |
BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC |
| Pub. date: |
4 December, 2013 |
| Series: |
Contemporary Dramatists |
| Description: |
A mixture of social satire, comedy and tragedy. This volume contains two major plays, "Red Noses" and "Sunset Glories", and a series of three short plays on disability including "Nobody Here But Us Chickens". Two plays on figures from the past, "Columbus" and "Socrates" have also been included. |
| Synopsis: |
A selection of plays by "one of the most original and biting comic writers working in Britain" (The Times)The Spirit of Man is "an ingenious triple-bill exploring Man's need for faith through three short satires based in medieval France, Protectorate England and nineteenth-century Eastern Europe" (Independent); Nobody Here But Us Chickens is a linked trilogy of satires on New Age, corporate and bedroom politics. Red Noses is a political satire about the plague and takes place in 1348. Set in medieval Italy during a crisis in the Church, Sunsets and Glories is "a work of the highest and most thrilling theatrical energy" (Independent on Sunday), whilst Bye Bye Columbus is a "highly entertaining" (Guardian) television play."Peter Barnes is one of the unrecognised geniuses of the English theatre" (Plays and Players) |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Methuen Drama |
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Non-returnable |