| Arden & d'Arcy Plays 1 Contributor(s): Arden, John (Author), D'Arcy, Margaretta (Author) |
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ISBN: 0413649407 ISBN-13: 9780413649409 Publisher: Methuen Drama OUR PRICE: $28.45 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 1991 Annotation: John Arden and Margaretta D'Arcy have been consistently interested in using drama to extend the boundaries of national identity and human freedom. In the sixties they embarked upon an unusual exercise in collaborative playmaking, resulting in works that combine history, politics, legend, the Irish troubles, satire, wit, and melodrama. The Royal Pardon: "A superb children's play ... Essentially, its theme is the human right to free imagination ... The play is full of ingenuity. Verbally, it contains some of Arden's best theatre poetry to date."-The Times The Little Gray Home in the West: "A stunning political drama, as good as the best of Arden and (let me stick my neck out) an equal to most of Brecht."-Plays and Players Vandaleur's Folly: "Arden and D'Arcy have the gift for writing a heightened prose that shades almost imperceptibly into song and ballad."-Guardian The volume also contains Friday's Hiding, The Business of Good Government, Ars Longa Vita Brevis, and Immediate Rough Theatre. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Drama | Anthologies (multiple Authors) - Performing Arts | Theater - Playwriting |
| Dewey: 822.91 |
| Series: Contemporary Dramatists |
| Physical Information: 1.17" H x 4.37" W x 6.99" (0.53 lbs) 443 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This collection brings together some of the best and most frequently performed plays by John Arden and Margaretta D'Arcy whose collaboration stems from the political years of the Sixties The Business of Good Government is a nativity play which develops a sense of a disappearing community; Ars Longa Vita Brevis is composed out of children's games and The Royal Pardon tells the story of the adventures of a group of strolling players who fall in with a deserter from the war in Flanders. Other plays in this collection such as Little Gray Home in the West and The Vandaleur's Folly arise from the highly charged political arena of the 1970s in Ireland.Arden and D'Arcy have been consistently interested in using drama to extend the very boundaries of national identity and human freedom. |