Barnes Plays: 2: Red Noses, the Spirit of Man, Nobody Here But Us Chickens, Sunsets and Glories, Bye Bye Columbus (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780413680303)

A selection of plays by "one of the most original and biting comic writers working in Britain" (The Times)

The Spirit of Man is "an ingenious triple-bill exploring Man's need for faith through three short satires based in medieval France, Protectorate England and nineteenth-century Eastern Europe" (Independent); Nobody Here But Us Chickens is a linked trilogy of satires on New Age, corporate and bedroom politics. Red Noses is a political satire about the plague and takes place in 1348. Set in medieval Italy during a crisis in the Church, Sunsets and Glories is "a work of the highest and most thrilling theatrical energy" (Independent on Sunday), whilst Bye Bye Columbus is a "highly entertaining" (Guardian) television play.

"Peter Barnes is one of the unrecognised geniuses of the English theatre" (Plays and Players)

Author: Peter Barnes
ISBN-10: 0413680304
ISBN-13: 9780413680303
Publisher: Methuen Drama
Language: English
Published: 10/11/2006
Pages: 360
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.01h x 5.05w x 0.88d