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Sto caricando le informazioni... House & Garden (French's Acting Edition S) (edizione 2003)di Alan Ayckbourn (Autore)
Informazioni sull'operaHouse & Garden: Two Plays di Alan Ayckbourn
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. These two plays are intended to be presented together. They both tell the same story, from two different points of view. The first play shows what is going on in the house as a family falls apart during a summer garden party; the second play shows what's going on in the garden. It is a great reminder of how little we know about what we see around us; our viewpoint is often constricted to where we are at the time something happens, and what somebody else tells us about the rest. The plays are not as riotously funny as some of Ayckbourn's stuff, but there is a lot to work with; I suspect it would play funnier on the stage than it reads. Much of the humor in Ayckbourn is not in the words, but in what is happening between the characters, and the physical disaster that occurs in the play. ( ) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Two dazzling new interconnected plays from the acclaimed author of Communicating Doors. Two plays -- designed to be performed simultaneously and involving the same characters -- set in the same English country house on the same cloudy August day, are Alan Ayckbourn's vehicle for a sharp and hilarious scrutiny of the destructive nature of human behavior and emotions. Friends, neighbors, and hired help are gathered in preparation for a garden fête at which the guest of honor, for reasons of which no one is entirely certain, is an alcoholic, promiscuous French movie star. The surly gardener steadily ignores various intrigues being rather noisily conducted in the bushes and garden sheds, the film star's agent is mistakenly assumed to be a chauffeur and is sent to the pub for her lunch, the dog does his share of alerting passersby to covert romantic liaisons, the kitchen maid breaks everything she touches, and an amoral London writer observes the goings-on with a cool and knowing eye. As the action, and the storm clouds, build toward the afternoon's deluge, politics, friship, marriage, sex, children, the interactions of the social classes, and the absurd anachronisms of the remaining landed gentry are all submitted to Ayckbourn's penetrating gaze. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)822.914Literature English English drama 1900- 1900-1999 20th Century 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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