Anouilh Plays: 2: The Rehearsal; Becket; The Orchestra; Eurydice

by Jean Anouilh, Jeremy Sams (Translator), Peter Meyer (Translator)

Overview

A selection of the most enduring work of one of this century's best-known French playwrights

This selection of plays by Jean Anouilh (1910-87), includes The Rehearsal ('quintissential Anouilh', Herald Tribune); Becket ('witty, intelligent, full of repartee and irreverence' Financial Times); The Orchestra (a play within a concert), together with Eurydice, an ironic modern reworkng of the myth ('a fascinating piece', Financial Times)."Anouilh is a poet but not a poet of words, he is a poet of words-acted, of scenes-set, of players-performing." (Peter Brook)

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780413722607
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	12/04/1997
Series:	World Classics
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.66(d)

About the Author

Jean Anouilh was born in Bordeaux in 1910 and lived for many years in Switzerland until his death in 1987. His best-known plays are: Restless Heart (1934), Dinner with the Family, Traveller without Lu ggage (both 1937) Thieves' Carnival (1938), Leocadia (1939), Point of Departure (Eurydice) (1941), A ntigone (1944), the Rehearsal (1950), The Waltz of the Toreadors (1952), The Lark (1953), Poor Bitos (1956), The Director of the Opera (1973). Methuen publishes two volumes of his collected plays.

Table of Contents

The Rehearsal; Becket; The Orchestra; Eurydice

Editorial Reviews

"Quintissential Anouilh." --Herald Tribune

"Witty, intelligent, full of repartee and irreverence." --Financial Times (Becket review)

"Fascinating." --Financial Times (The Orchestra review)

"Anouilh is a poet but not a poet of words, he is a poet of words-acted, of scenes-set, of players-performing." --Peter Brook, Director

From the Publisher

Fascinating.

Financial Times (The Orchestra review)

Witty, intelligent, full of repartee and irreverence.

Financial Times (Becket review)

Anouilh is a poet but not a poet of words, he is a poet of words-acted, of scenes-set, of players-performing.

Director Peter Brook

Quintissential Anouilh.

Herald Tribune