Pownall is an acknowledged master of the monologue and this collection brings together four wonderful plays written to be performed by a single actor. His acclaimed Nijinsky, written for the dancer Richard Johnson, has toured the world extensively, and charts the story affair between legendary dancer and his mentor Diaghilev. Also includes: Crates on Barrels, Later, and Rousseau's Tale.
Pownall is an acknowledged master of the monologue and this collection brings together four wonderful plays written to be performed by a single actor....
Kops: Plays One Bernard Kops Few writers, even fewer dramatists, have managed to explore so fully our inexhaustible capacity for trying to escape that endless series of traps called Life. In Kops' world, the escape is never conclusive or finite or romantic, but always an escape from the inescapable, from one kind of a trap to another.
Kops: Plays One Bernard Kops Few writers, even fewer dramatists, have managed to explore so fully our inexhaustible capacity for trying to escape that...
Three plays from the Jewish playwright Bernard Kops. Kops is one of the best known Jewish playwrights of his time. Also published by Oberon Books is Kops: Plays One and Kops: Plays Two
Three plays from the Jewish playwright Bernard Kops. Kops is one of the best known Jewish playwrights of his time. Also published by Oberon Books is K...
In Silence and Violence, the wife of a war hero seduces a much-reviled sculptor as Betts examines the artist's quest for self-expression in a Philistine state. Five Visions of the Faithful is a series of uncompromising narratives exploring freedom, faith, death and desire. Also includes Betts' popular verse drama Incarcerator and his first radio play, The Last Days of Desire.
In Silence and Violence, the wife of a war hero seduces a much-reviled sculptor as Betts examines the artist's quest for self-expression in a P...
In Whispers Along the Patio, two paintings and a bizarre set of events bring five very different and lonely people to dine by candlelight. But will the pursuit of private passion cause chaos among this disparate company? Also includes: Nice Dorothy and The Last Thrash.
In Whispers Along the Patio, two paintings and a bizarre set of events bring five very different and lonely people to dine by candlelight. But will th...
Two plays -- The Dark River and After October -- by a master of the British stage. In The Dark River, set in the late 1930s, the flamboyant characters are cocooned in a Thames backwater, ignoring the turbulent events of a politically unstable Europe. After October is Ackland's most personal, autobiographical play.
Two plays -- The Dark River and After October -- by a master of the British stage. In The Dark River, set in the late 1930s, the flamboyant characters...
