A volume of plays from one of the twentieth century's leading novelists and playwrights. Includes: After the Rain, Little Boxes, The Disorderly Women and Singles.
A volume of plays from one of the twentieth century's leading novelists and playwrights. Includes: After the Rain, Little Boxes, The Disorderly Women ...
A collection of autobiographical short stories that chart the author's journey from youthful enthusiasm and success to raging despair, anger and final self-destruction.
A collection of autobiographical short stories that chart the author's journey from youthful enthusiasm and success to raging despair, anger and final...
The Gates of Summer is a comedy set in and about a country house in Greece immediately before the First World War. The Devils was commissioned by Sir Peter Hall and produced at the Aldwych in 1961 with Dorothy Tutin and Diana Rigg. Marching Song and A Walk in the Desert were both adapted for television.
The Gates of Summer is a comedy set in and about a country house in Greece immediately before the First World War. The Devils was commis...
Richard III Part Two depicts England's most notorious and most -musical- monarch from a different angle. In Motorcar, a policeman, a doctor and two nurses are trapped in a mental hospital with a visionary psychotic. An Audience Called Edovard brings Karl Marx to life, through the lens of the painter Manet. Livingstone and Sechele tells the story of the missionary Dr. Livingstone.
Richard III Part Two depicts England's most notorious and most -musical- monarch from a different angle. In Motorcar, a policeman, a doc...
No other major playwright of the last 50 years has undergone such a reappraisal as Rodney Ackland. Interest in his work has renewed in the 1990s, starting at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, with further revivals at many theatres, including the Chichester Festival Theatre and the Royal National Theatre. In Plays Two, we are reminded once again of Ackland's dangerous gift.
No other major playwright of the last 50 years has undergone such a reappraisal as Rodney Ackland. Interest in his work has renewed in the 1990s, star...
Presented as a trilogy at the New End Theatre in 1995 before touring much of Europe, The Dybukk pays homage to Ansky's great Russian classic. Set in a ghetto in Eastern Europe in 1942, it traces the final moments of five irreligious Jews. A Dead Woman on Holiday is a love story set during the Nuremberg trials. Theresa is based on secret research into the Channel Island occupation, where the play is still banned.
Presented as a trilogy at the New End Theatre in 1995 before touring much of Europe, The Dybukk pays homage to Ansky's great Russian classic. S...
