Anouilh Plays: 1
Antigone; Leocadia; The Waltz of the Toreasors; The Lark; Poor Bitos
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published:10th Dec '87
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
This collection includes: "Antigone"; "The Lark"; "Poor Bitos" - works which show Anouilh's love of reworking myth, history and legend. "Leocadia" and "The Waltz of the Toreadors" demonstrate his talent for ironic modern comedy.
A selection of the most enduring work of one of this century's best-known French playwrights Jean Anouilh (1910-87) along with Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, was at the forefront of the post-war generation of playwrights in Paris. In England his plays were championed by Peter Brook. Antigone is a response to the German occupation of France and established his popularity in 1944 (the Germans ironically, thought that it was a pro-Nazi in its portrayal of King Creon and thus allowed its production); Poor Bitos, Anouilh's angriest play explores the act of judicial murder and The Lark is a version of the Joan of Arc story. All three plays show his fondness for reworking myth, history and legend. Meanwhile Leocadia, about an opera singer who dies after a three day love affair with a prince and The Waltz of the Toreadors, about a general whose mistress attempts to prove his wife's infidelity, represent another talent - for ironic, modern comedy."Anouilh is a poet but not a poet of words, he is a poet of words-acted, of scenes-set, of players-performing." (Peter Brook)
ISBN: 9780413140302
Dimensions: 178mm x 111mm x 27mm
Weight: 498g
448 pages