Anouilh Plays: 2

Synopsis

The Rehearsal, Becket, Eurydice, and the Orchestra

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