Barnes Plays: 2: Red Noses, Sunset Glories, Nobody Here But Us Chickens, Columbus, Socrates

By Peter Barnes

Book Overview

A selection of plays by "one of the most original and biting comic writers working in Britain" (The Times)

The Spirit of Man is "an ingenious triple-bill exploring Man's need for faith through three short satires based in medieval France, Protectorate England and nineteenth-century Eastern Europe" (Independent); Nobody Here But Us Chickens is a linked trilogy of satires on New Age, corporate and bedroom politics. Red Noses is a political satire about the plague and takes place in 1348. Set in medieval Italy during a crisis in the Church, Sunsets and Glories is "a work of the highest and most thrilling theatrical energy" (Independent on Sunday), whilst Bye Bye Columbus is a "highly entertaining" (Guardian) television play.

"Peter Barnes is one of the unrecognised geniuses of the English theatre" (Plays and Players)

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0413680304
• ISBN13: 9780413680303
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.0" x 8.0"