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Nicholas Wright: Five Plays (NHB Modern Plays)

✍ Scribed by Nicholas Wright

Book ID: 111096524
Publisher: Nick Hern Books
Year: 2017
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 162 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9781788500067
ASIN: B077TT579D

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

A rich selection of work from the late 1970s and 1980s, introduced by the playwright.

The plays contained in this volume are:

The Custom of the Country
An updating of Fletcher and Massinger's bawdy Jacobean drama.

The Desert Air
A wartime comedy set in Cairo.

Mrs Klein
A play about the controversial psychoanalyst.

One Fine Day
A comedy about the gulf that separates Britain and Africa.

Treetops
A play based on the author's own rebellious boyhood in South Africa.

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