Forty Years on - Couverture souple

Bennett, Alan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0571090974 ISBN 13 : 9780571090976

Editeur : Faber & Faber, 1973

Synopsis

Book by Bennett Alan

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Two classic Alan Bennett dramas, as heard on BBC Radio 4. In A Woman of No Importance, Patricia Routledge plays Margaret Schofield, a woman whose existence has long revolved around the gossip and minutiae of office life. As she recounts the events leading up to her first bout of tummy trouble, there is little hint of the developments ahead - or of the moving portrayal of brave and inevitable decline which writer and performer create between them. Forty Years On, Alan Bennett's most popular stage play, stars Sir John Gielgud, Paul Eddington and Bennett himself. Having been at Albion House for fifty years, man and boy, the Headmaster is now retiring. Taking part in the end-of-term entertainment for the last time, he is outraged to find his beloved standards being mocked. A kaleidoscopic comedy, Forty Years On is part parody and part nostalgia for a fading English tradition.

2 CDs. 2 hrs 13 mins.

Présentation de l'éditeur

The Headmaster has been at Albion House for fifty years, man and boy. Now he is retiring and takes part in the end-of-year entertainment for the last time. Entitled Speak For England, Arthur, it weaves together a multi-generational story of England: the glorious era at the turn of the century, when the summers were always golden; the fast-living inter-war years peopled by the Bloomsbury Group; and the growing cynicism of a country going to war twice in so many decades. Tongue-in-cheek, the play-within-a-play prompts an outraged response from the Headmaster, who can only see his beloved standards being mocked. Yet within the parody lies an almost-painful nostalgia for a more peaceful age and the timeless misunderstanding of one generation by another. Clever, funny and poignant, Alan Bennett's masterful play is rightly regarded as a modern classic.

2 CDs. 1 hr 44 mins.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Faber & Faber
• Date d'édition: 1973
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0571090974
• ISBN 13: 9780571090976
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 80
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible