Perry Pontac

The Bards of Bromley and Other Plays (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Foreword by Maureen Lipman

Having produced a new Shakespearean canon in his previous collection of plays Codpieces, Perry Pontac turns his attention to other great names in European culture.The Three Seagulls is a Chekhovian comedy with representative characters drawn from each of Chekhov's major plays, as well as a selection of his plot-lines. The Lunchtime of the Gods is Wagner's Ring recycled into a thirty-minute play telling the entire story,plus several jokes not in the original. And in The Bards of Bromley,the first meeting of a writers' workshop is attended by a group of unusually promising authors: William Wordsworth, George Eliot, August Strindberg, A A Milne and Johan Wolfgang von Goethe.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 96
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781849437776
• Artikelnr.: 49859785

Autorenporträt

Perry Pontac was born in California. He has been living and writing in London for over forty years. His first play, The Old Man's Comforts, was produced in 1973 by Kenneth Tynan. Since then, he has written numerous plays and sketches including for the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre. His many radio plays have been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and 4, two of which, The Lunchtime of the Gods and The Bards of Bromley - in new stage versions - are included in this collection.