Anouilh Plays: 2: The Rehearsal; Becket; The Orchestra; Eurydice

By Jean Anouilh

Book Overview

A selection of the most enduring work of one of this century's best-known French playwrights

This selection of plays by Jean Anouilh (1910-87), includes The Rehearsal ('quintissential Anouilh', Herald Tribune); Becket ('witty, intelligent, full of repartee and irreverence' Financial Times); The Orchestra (a play within a concert), together with Eurydice, an ironic modern reworkng of the myth ('a fascinating piece', Financial Times)."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)

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0413722600
• ISBN13: 9780413722607
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 8.0"