Cover; Title Page; Contents; Characters; Original Production; This is a Chair; The War in Bosnia; Pornography and Censorship; The Labour Party's Slide to the Right; Animal Conservation and Third World Economies: the Ivory Trade; Hong Kong; The Northern Ireland Peace Process; Genetic Engineering; The
This is a Chair
โ Scribed by Caryl Churchill
- Book ID
- 111001015
- Publisher
- Nick Hern Books
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 8 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781780013039
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
A series of surreal sketches, each prefaced by a doom-laden tabloid style headline, This Is A Chair is at once modern and postmodern, tragedy and farce, about all and about nothing.
'Churchill, who constantly reinvents dramatic form, has come up with something compelling and strange: an intimate revue about the increasing surreality of modern life' - Guardian
'creates a haunting impression of urban alienation, self-obsession and pre-millennial tension' - Daily Telegraph
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