Parker Plays: 2
by Stewart Parker

Name: Parker Plays: 2
Brand: Stewart Parker
SKU: 9780413743503
Rating: 4.02 (63 reviews)

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Highlights

British

What readers are saying

Readers generally praise the inventive nature of the playwright and express admiration for his work, particularly focusing on the play "Pentecost." Many find the themes deep and the dialogue impactful, suggesting a strong emotional connection to the material. However, a few readers feel the plays lack originality and see them as merely cultural references.

Inventive and original writingDeep emotional connectionStrong dialogue and themesLacks originality in some aspects

Synopsis

"Stewart Parker was a playwright whose sense of history and elegance of wit and feeling were unusual in the British Theatre" (Observer)

This volume includes three of Stewart Parker's most striking plays - Northern Star: 'Only an Irishman could have written something like this: a freewheeling, lunatic sense of invention is harnessed to a cultivated, literary imagination and stoked up by moral outrage.

It is a captivating play' (Sunday Times); Heavenly Bodies: 'The colourful, rather Balzacian story of Boucicault ...An undoubted talent for pungent dialogue' (The Times); Pentecost: 'One of the most stimulating, most satisfying, most touching, most illuminating in years of Irish theatre.

A total theatrical experience' (Irish Times)

ThemesEnglish drama English drama--20th century PR6066.A69 A6 2000