Three plays: A slight ache, the collection [and] The dwarfs.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pinter, Harold, 1930-2008.

Series:

Evergreen original ; E-350.

Evergreen original ; E-350

Standardized Title:

Plays. Selections

Language:

English

Physical Description:

108 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Grove Press, [1962]

Summary:

Wallace Shawn's The Fever is the winner of the 1991 Obie Award for Best Play and soon to be a film starring Vanessa Redgrave. While visiting a poverty-stricken country far from home, the unnamed narrator of The Fever is forced to witness the political persecution occurring just beyond a hotel window. In examining a life of comfort and relative privilege, the narrator reveals, "I always say to my friends, We should be glad to be alive. We should celebrate life. We should understand that life is wonderful." But how does one celebrate life - take pleasure in beauty, for instance - while slowly becoming aware that the poverty and oppression of other human beings are a direct consequence of one's own pleasurable life? In a coruscating monologue, The Fever is most of all an eloquent meditation on living a life with conscience and action in ethical relationship to others in the world.

ISBN:

080214070X

9780802140708

039417240X

9780394172408

OCLC:

368383