Barnes Plays: v.2: 'Red Noses', 'Sunset Glories', 'Nobody Here But Us Chickens', 'Columbus', 'Socrates'
by Peter Barnes
Synopsis
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)
Press Reviews
"A brilliant play.... A tremendous life affirming piece that celebrates the human spirit while deriding those who would tyrannize and encase it."
— London Guardian
"Wonderful play ... about laughter; how it can keep us sane in one kind of crisis and play us false in another."
— L.A. Times
"An extraordinary morality play.... Barnes is our most gifted contemporary Jonsonian."
— London Financial Times
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Barnes Plays: v.2: 'Red Noses', 'Sunset Glories', 'Nobody Here But Us Chickens', 'Columbus', 'Socrates' is a comedy play written by Peter Barnes and published by Samuel French (1993).
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