Parker Plays: 2: Northern Star; Heavenly Bodies; Pentecost
- ISBN-10
- 0413743500
- ISBN-13
- 9780413743503
- Category
- Drama / General
- Pages
- 260
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006-10-11
- Publisher
- Methuen Drama
- Author
- Stewart Parker
Description
"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)
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