Barnes Plays: 2 : Red Noses, The Spirit of Man, Nobody Here But Us Chickens, Sunsets and Glories, Bye Bye Columbus Paperback / softback
by Peter Barnes
Part of the Contemporary Dramatists series
Paperback / softback
Description
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)
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:360 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:15/11/1993
- Category:
- ISBN:9780413680303
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:360 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:15/11/1993
- Category:
- ISBN:9780413680303
