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Plays 2: Red Noses / The Spirit of Man / Nobody Here But Us Chickens / Sunsets and Glories / Bye Bye Columbus

4.3/5 ( ratings)

A selection of plays by "one of the most original and biting comic writers working in Britain"

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" ; 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" , whilst Bye Bye Columbus is a "highly entertaining" television play."Peter Barnes is one of the unrecognised geniuses of the English theatre"

Pages: 360

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Methuen Publishing, Ltd.

Release: November 15, 1993

ISBN: 0413680304

ISBN 13: 9780413680303

Plays 2: Red Noses / The Spirit of Man / Nobody Here But Us Chickens / Sunsets and Glories / Bye Bye Columbus

4.3/5 ( ratings)

A selection of plays by "one of the most original and biting comic writers working in Britain"

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" ; 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" , whilst Bye Bye Columbus is a "highly entertaining" television play."Peter Barnes is one of the unrecognised geniuses of the English theatre"

Pages: 360

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Methuen Publishing, Ltd.

Release: November 15, 1993

ISBN: 0413680304

ISBN 13: 9780413680303

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