This deceptively simple tale relates the activities of seven English children played by adults on a summer afternoon during World War II. In a woods, a field and a barn, they play, fight, fantasize and swagger. Their aggressions, fears, hostilities and rivalries are a microcosm of adult interaction. Easy going Willie tags along as burly Peter bullies Raymond and is challenged by fair minded Paul. Plain Audrey is overshadowed by Angela's prettiness and wreaks her anger on the boys. All of them gang up on the terrified "Donald Duck" who, abused by his mother and ridiculed by his peers, plays a...
This deceptively simple tale relates the activities of seven English children played by adults on a summer afternoon during World War II. In a woods, ...
The key to a bold and original approach to the mission, arrest, trial and death of Jesus is the title; Son of Man. He is portrayed as a man agonized by the feeling of divinity within him, and with all a man's capacity for suffering and pain. "Father, let me be just a man," he cries; and, to his disciples. "He (Son of Man) cannot be other than a man, or else God has cheated-- and so my Father in Heaven will abandon me to myself." The play also strongly reflects the historical and political situation in which the events occur-- and examines in a new light the character and motives of Judas...
The key to a bold and original approach to the mission, arrest, trial and death of Jesus is the title; Son of Man. He is portrayed as a man agonized b...
Dennis Potter's best work is widely regarded as the high-water mark of British television drama: Son of Man, The Singing Detective, Blue Remembered Hills and Pennies from Heaven. Published to mark eighty years since Potter's birth, this new anthology is a cache of rarely seen and often excoriating nonfiction, which elevates his standing as a journalist and critic to match his undisputed brilliance as a dramatist.
Dennis Potter's best work is widely regarded as the high-water mark of British television drama: Son of Man, The Singing Detective, Blue Remembe...
