Three plays by Welsh playwright Dic Edwards: Casanova Undone, Looking for the World, Long to Rain Over Us. With an introduction by Edward Bond. The height of the terror of the French Revolution, a prisoner-of-war camp and Greece under the Generals. These are the settings for three powerful, witty and disturbing plays. Casanova Undone was first performed by the Citizens Theatre Company, Glasgow.
Three plays by Welsh playwright Dic Edwards: Casanova Undone, Looking for the World, Long to Rain Over Us. With an introductio...
Premiered at the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow. Alma Wittgenstein, bored by her neo-fascist husband, goes to Cambridge to investigate the values of her long-lost father, Ludwig.
Premiered at the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow. Alma Wittgenstein, bored by her neo-fascist husband, goes to Cambridge to investigate the values of her lo...
Franco's Bastard looks at nationalism/terrorism; Lola Brecht at the situation in the Balkans; The plays travel the world in search of answers to questions like: how can justice be less than absolute? what makes us settle for less than the least we should expect? why do we oppress when we advocate freedom? why, when we are vulnerable, do we exploit the vulnerability of others? why is liberal democracy so often not liberal or democratic? The plays deal with their subjects often with a humour that tests audiences questions what we regard as the truth. They are based on the author's belief that...
Franco's Bastard looks at nationalism/terrorism; Lola Brecht at the situation in the Balkans; The plays travel the world in search of answers to quest...
A refugee suffers the secrets of war; stories of things killed and died for. This fable explores mendacity and vanity in contemporary politics. Production at the Edinburgh Fringe in July/August 2005.
A refugee suffers the secrets of war; stories of things killed and died for. This fable explores mendacity and vanity in contemporary politics. Produ...
The two plays in this collection ring fascinating new changes on the well-worn contrast between a writer's life and work. The biographical play The Pimp is an elegant dance of death for four characters: the poet Charles Baudelaire, his mixed-race mistress Jeanne Duval, his respectable but repressed mother and his hypocritical legal adviser. Each of them has a part to play in the poetry as well as the tragedy of Baudelaire's life. In the brilliant, often surreal Solitude, the blocked writer Trecci (a character loosely based on the novelist Alexander Trocchi) wishes to...
The two plays in this collection ring fascinating new changes on the well-worn contrast between a writer's life and work. The biographical play...
