Plays: Europe; The Architect; The Cosmonaut's Last Message.: v. 1 (Contemporary Dramatists)

Greig, David

ISBN 10: 0413772535 / ISBN 13: 9780413772534

Published by Methuen Drama, 2009

About this Item

Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Plays: Europe; The Architect; The Cosmonaut's Last Message.: v. 1 (Contemporary Dramatists)
• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0413772535
• ISBN 13: 9780413772534
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 230 grams

About this title

Synopsis

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

About the Author

David Greig's plays include A Savage Reminiscence and And the Opera House Remained Unbuilt (Edinburgh Festival), Petra's Explanation (Traverse, Edinburgh), Stalinland (Edinburgh Festival - Fringe First, and Glasgow Citizens') and The Cosmonaut's Last Message to the Woman He Once Loved in the Former Soviet Union (Paines Plough, Lyric Hammersmith, Tron Glasgow and tour). TV: Nightlife (winner BBC Double Exposure comptition. Radio: Copper Sulphate, The Commuter.