Sometime in the seventies, two young men - a writer and a doctor - spend 'a winter residence at Tangier'. They do indeed 'bring introductions' and are soon 'meeting the English and American colony': an assembly of rampant originals, eccentrics and down-at-heel refugees - from the weather; from a Britain about to exchange the dying threnody of Empire for meretricious Thatcherite Renaissance; from merely the high price of gin. The two are quickly caught up in the hectic expatriate round, as well as the vibrant and contradictory life of Tangier itself, classic crossroads of East and West, where...
Sometime in the seventies, two young men - a writer and a doctor - spend 'a winter residence at Tangier'. They do indeed 'bring introductions' and are...
In the summer of 1968 Max Quester is appointed drama counsellor at an American summer camp. But instead of the civilised play readings he has envisaged, sipping wine on the terrace with the brighter students, he finds himself in the regimented world of Camp Hartacre, presided over by the manic and stuttering figure of Irwin E Hartacre, who rampages around with baseball bat and javelin, urging everyone to get on in there and k-k-KILL! Far from art and literature being the ruling passions, the place is a parody of all-American patriotism and machismo. Not only is there no theatre, but there are...
In the summer of 1968 Max Quester is appointed drama counsellor at an American summer camp. But instead of the civilised play readings he has envisage...
