| Greig Plays:1: Europe; The Architect; The Cosmonaut's Last Message... Contributor(s): Greig, David (Author) |
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ISBN: 0413772535 ISBN-13: 9780413772534 Publisher: Methuen Drama OUR PRICE: $28.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2009 Annotation: David Greig is "the most important playwright to have emerged north of the border in years."-Scotsman Europe: "There is the sharp, analytic intelligence, the crackling inventiveness of a real writer buzzing about this gripping play."-Scotsman The Architect: "Provides convincing evidence of ... Greig'sconfident transition from a dramatist of purpose to one of stature."-Independent The Cosmonaut's Last Message to the Woman He Once Loved in the Former Soviet Union: "David Greig's magnificent play about language, space, and love ... reveals to devastating effect the way that language can make and break us all."-Guardian |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Drama - Performing Arts | Theater - Playwriting |
| Dewey: 822.914 |
| LCCN: 2005415327 |
| Series: Contemporary Dramatists |
| Physical Information: 0.23" H x 5.12" W x 7.74" (0.61 lbs) 336 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The first collection of plays of one of Scotland's best-known contemporary dramatists EUROPE is set in a railway station at an unnamed border town where old and new Europeans weave a tale of love, loss and longing. Fierce, compassionate, mightily ambitious drama...there is the sharp, analytic intelligence, the crackling inventiveness of a real writer buzzing about this gripping play Scotsman THE ARCHITECT charts the rise and fall of Leo Black, once an idealistic and idolised designer, whose magnificent visions are now crumbling, along with his family, in the light of grubby reality. Provides convincing evidence of David Greig's confident transition from a dramatist of promise to one of stature Independent. Lyrical, soulful and darkly funny, THE COSMONAUT'S LAST MESSAGE weaves together the stories of a fraught Scottish couple whose TV is on the blink, a Norwegian UN peace negotiator, a young prostitute, a French UFO researcher, a pregnant police woman and two forgotten Cosmonauts who sadly orbit the planet.The most important playwright to have emerged north of the border in years Scotsman |