Pentecost
by David Edgar

Name: Pentecost
Brand: David Edgar
SKU: 9781854592927
Rating: 3.74 (118 reviews)

Highlights

Medium Cast

Female

Male

120 mins Reduced Casting (Doubling Possible) Unit Set/Multiple Settings British

Awards & Recognition

Evening Standard Award

Winner! 1995 Evening Standard Award for Best Play

Synopsis

The first in David Edgar's trilogy of plays about post-Communist Eastern Europe - see alsoThe Prisoner's DilemmaandThe Shape of the Table.

A valuable mural is discovered in a church in war-torn Eastern Europe.

As international and local art historians argue over who should claim ownership, the fate of the painting becomes a metaphor for the future of the emergent nations of Eastern Europe.

Winner of the 1995 Evening Standard Play of the Year Award

'One of those rare works that makes you want to climb on to roof tops to shout about its merits' -Daily Telegraph

'Dazzlingly ambitious' -Observer

'Edgar’s superb play about language, people, art and culture... a richly enjoyable script' -Daily Telegraph, 2012

'Plenty to get your teeth into... fascinating' -The Times, 2012

Themes PR6055.D44 P46 1995

Press Reviews

"One of those rare works that makes you want to climb on to roof tops to shout about its merits...Funny, frightening and deeply moving."
— Daily Telegraph

"Cuts to the heart in a smashing ideological epic."
— The New York Times

"Pentecost is a play of politics and ideas...Be prepared to have your political preconceptions kicked in the knee."
— The Los Angeles Times

"Never boring."
— The New York Times

"This is the meatiest new drama I have seen since Stoppard's Arcadia, which is, come to think of it, the only new play I have seen in the past decade whose rigor and historical depth meaningfully compare with Pentecost's."
— Jonathan Kalb, The Village Voice