Anouilh Plays Two: The Rehearsal, Becket, Eurydice, and the Orchestra - Couverture souple

Anouilh, Jean

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0413722600 ISBN 13 : 9780413722607

Editeur : Methuen Drama, 1997

Synopsis

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


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This 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)
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A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Jean Anouilh was born in Bordeaux in 1910. He studied law briefly at the Sorbonne and then became a copywriter for an advertising agency. In 1931 he became secretary to the actor-manager, Louis Jouvet, and his first play, <I>The Ermine</I>, was staged the following year. <I>Antigone </I>firmly established his popularity in France in 1944, and Peter Brook's 1950 production of <I>Ring Round the Moon </I>in Christopher Fry's translation made his name in England. His best-known plays are: <I>Restless Heart </I>(1934); <I>Dinner with the Family</I>, <I>Traveller without Luggage</I> (both 1937);<I> Thieves' Carnival </I>(1938); <I>Léocadia </I>(1939); <I>Point of Departure (Eurydice)</I> (1941); <I>Romeo and Jeannette </I>(1945); <I>Medea </I>(1946); <I>Ardèle </I>(1948);<I> The Rehearsal </I>(1950); <I>Colombe </I>(1951); <I>The Waltz of the Toreadors </I>(1952); <I>The Lark </I>(1953); <I>Ornifle </I>(1955); <I>Poor Bitos </I>(1956); <I>Becket </I>(1956); <I>The Fighting Cock </I>(1966); <I>Dear Antoine </I>(1971); <I>The Director of the Opera</I> (1973); <I>Number One </I>(1981). Twice married, he lived mainly in Switzerland for the last thirty years of his life. Anouilh died in 1987.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Methuen Drama
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0413722600
• ISBN 13: 9780413722607
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible