after rain play three acts de bowen john (5 résultats)

93 pp. 12mo, publisher's printed wrappers. First edition; Uncorrected Proof Copy in wrappers. Fine. Ms. notation on front cover: "May 18s".

paperback. Etat : Acceptable. Ex-library book, usual markings. Well read with some wear but still very useable. Quick dispatch from UK seller.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. First Edition. Presentable, tight and sound copy. Publisher's cloth gilt. Dust jacket price clipped, lightly rubbed. Bookplate to front pastedown. No inscriptions. 93 pages. Approx. size 9" by 6". Quantity Available: 1. Category: Theatre & Plays; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 26233.

Cloth. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. None (illustrateur). First edition. A smart first edition copy of John Bowen's play After the Rain. A first edition copy of the play After the Rain, by John Bowen.The play is set two hundred years after the Great Rain, which drowned the world as we know it. In a university lecture hall the story of how a handful of nine men and women survived is being acted out.John Bowen was a British playwright and author.In the original unclipped dust wrapper. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, excellent. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. In the original unclipped dust wrapper which is very smart with some light marks to the wraps. Fine. book.

Cloth. Etat : Very Good. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY PLAYWRIGHT, with ALS. 8vo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in bright gilt. Gentle pushing and wear to extremities. Boldly inscribed by Bowen in black felt-tip to ffep: "For Elisabeth Bergner, In admiration., John Bowen.," apologetic one-page ALS (on Bowen's Knightbridge-headed paper) from the playwright to "Miss Bergner". Clean and tight. In the original illustrated dust jacket, featuring John Haynes' photograph of the original production: price-clipped, creased and gently soiled, wear to spine ends and corners. Very good/ good+ A lovely inscribed copy of Bowen's most successful stage play, inscribed to the eminent Austrian stage and screen actor "in admiration", unusual signed. Set two hundred years in the future, "after the Great Rain," Bowen's play, adapted from his 1958 novel, was first performed at the Hampstead Theatre Club, London in 1966 and later transferred to Broadway (John Golden theatre, 1967) from the West End (Duchess theatre, 1967), with Alec McCowen starring in all productions. John Bowen (1924-2019) was a British playwright and novelist, who "virtually abandoned his career as a novelist in the 1960s to concentrate on writing for TV, and made his biggest impression with horror plays and ghost stories", including his "screen masterpiece" Robin Redbreast, produced three years after this publication and inscription (Hayward, 2019). The Austrian Jewish actor, Elisabeth Bergner (born Elisabeth Ettel; 1887-1986) was as lauded as Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich in her heyday, renowned, as the comparisons suggest, for her androgyny and ability to flip from a boyish aesthetic in Hosenrolle to the role of femme-enfant. Born in Drohobycz in Galicia (now Ukraine), 'die Bergner' worked with the innovative Austrian producer-director Max Reinhardt, giving celebrated performances in Ibsen, Shakespeare and Shaw productions, as well as on the German screen. With the rise of the Nazis, she fled to Britain and the stages of London and Edinburgh, taking leading roles as Gemma Jones in Margaret Kennedy's Escape Me Never (1934) and David in J. M. Barrie's final play, written for her, The Boy David (1936). She gave an Oscar-nominated performance in the British film adaptation of Escape Me Never, directed by her (lavender) husband Paul Czinner, and starred alongside a young Laurence Olivier as Rosalind in the first Shakespeare talkie, As You Like It (1936). Anthony Hayward (2019) 'John Bowen: Obituary,' The Guardian.