Plays one / Roland Schimmelpfennig ; translated by David Tushingham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schimmelpfennig, Roland, author.

Contributor:

Tushingham, David, translator.

Series:

Modern playwrights.

Oberon modern playwrights

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

German drama--21st century--Translations into English.

German drama.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (458 p.)

Place of Publication:

London : Oberon Books, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Roland Schimmelpfennig is the most performed contemporary German playwright. This collection demonstrates the breadth and formal innovation of his writing. The Animal Kingdom depicts the unremitting battle for human survival in a merciless environment: the theatre. Peggy Pickit Sees the Face of God has been likened to a post-colonial Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. Here two doctors who have returned from Africa reveal the true cost of their failure to combat a terrible and frightening disease. Idomeneus is a narrative play written for a large chorus which re-tells the classical Idomeneus m

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""�The Theatre Needs Challenges�""; ""The Animal Kingdom""; ""Idomeneus""; ""Peggy Pickit Sees the Face of God""; ""The Four Points of the Compass""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781783195947

1783195940

OCLC:

904207855