Four Plays for Coarse Actors - The Coarse Acting Show - Performed at the Edinburgh Festival 1977 as The Coarse Acting Show
by Green, Michael
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0573000085
- ISBN 13
- 9780573000089
- Seller
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Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
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About This Item
London: Samuel French Ltd, 1978. First Edition . Trade Paperback. Very Good. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2. 63 Pages. Slightly turned up front cover. Interior text pages are tight and free on any marks. The plays are presented as parodies of four dramatic styles in the performance of which everything which can conceivably go wrong in a production does so. II Fornicazione is a grim tale of operatic adultery, poison and mayhem. Streuth is a crime story which even Agatha Christie would never have dared to write. A Collier's Tuesday Tea combines the kitchen sink with the coal-mine, and with an irreverent glance at D. H. Lawrence. All's Well That Ends As You Like It (from an idea by William Shakespeare) pushes the genius of the Bard to its utmost limits, while managing to filch lines from most of his own plays. In all four, cues are missed, effects fail, props are lost or in the wrong place and one play, Streuth, gets itself into such confusion that it is doomed, apparently, to perpetual motion: but the Coarse Actors struggle gamefully on throughout.
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- Bookseller
- Dons Book Store (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19896
- Title
- Four Plays for Coarse Actors - The Coarse Acting Show - Performed at the Edinburgh Festival 1977 as The Coarse Acting Show
- Author
- Green, Michael
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0573000085
- ISBN 13
- 9780573000089
- Publisher
- Samuel French Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1978
- Size
- 5 1/2" x 8 1/2
- Keywords
- PLAYS THEATRE FOUR DRAMAS PARADIES CRIME SHAKESPEARE
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