'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 (''quintessential 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 reworking 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)'