The Veil (NHB Modern Plays) - Softcover

McPherson, Conor

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1848422024 ISBN 13: 9781848422025

Verlag: Nick Hern Books, 2011

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Críticas:

The finest dramatist of his generation. --Daily Telegraph

A cracking fireside tale of haunting and decay...The combination of narcotics, spiritualism, dementia, sin and suicide is intensified - and here it does feel modern - by a constant awareness that outside, villagers and their children are starving to death. --The Times

McPherson directs with an effective mixture of dark comedy and suspense. The first ghostly manifestation is a real dramatic coup, and a séance scene, conducted by the defrocked priest, is genuinely terrifying. Like some latterday Hamlet, McPherson is clearly convinced there are more things in heaven and earth that are dreamt of in most playwrights' philosophy...An original and at times genuinely startling evening. --The Telegraph

A cracking fireside tale of haunting and decay...The combination of narcotics, spiritualism, dementia, sin and suicide is intensified - and here it does feel modern - by a constant awareness that outside, villagers and their children are starving to death. --The Times

McPherson directs with an effective mixture of dark comedy and suspense. The first ghostly manifestation is a real dramatic coup, and a séance scene, conducted by the defrocked priest, is genuinely terrifying. Like some latterday Hamlet, McPherson is clearly convinced there are more things in heaven and earth that are dreamt of in most playwrights' philosophy...An original and at times genuinely startling evening. --The Telegraph

Reseña del editor:

Conor McPherson's new play weaves Ireland's troubled colonial history into a transfixing story about the search for love, the transcendental and the circularity of time. World premiere at the National Theatre in 2011.

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• Verlag: Nick Hern Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1848422024
• ISBN 13: 9781848422025
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 128