Παρουσίαση
The plays in this volume were all written between 1973 and 1979, those grey years when the last residue of sixties optimism was quickly fading and before the harsh divisive upheavals of the Conservative eighties. A period which already seems strangely distant: the years of Heath, Wilson and Callaghan, of Wimpey bars, the Bay City Rollers, punk and the National Front. The plays, to some extent, lasso the atmosphere of that time, but they also look forward to many of the anxieties and desires of the late eighties. In this introduction I discuss each play briefly on its own, recalling the atmosphere in which they were written, some of the things they were trying to express, and I also look more generally at what I consider are the central tenets of my writing. Clever Soldiers was written just before I left Cambridge, at the end of my second year, ignominiously failing to take my degree. It is the obvious odd play out in this collection in that it is my first period play, set just before and during the Great War. Despite the difference in subject matter and setting from the other plays, and the more overtly poetic style, it seems clear to me that I was already working out various attitudes in this play that have dominated my work ever since. The first and most obvious is a reaction to the Brechtian approach to theatre, and in this case history plays in particular. It clearly shows my desire to involve the audience totally, to chart a character's change, to reach an audience through vivid, tactile, emotional theatre: a commitment to visceral writing. [...] (From the publisher)Περιεχόμενα
Clever Soldiers Hitting TownCity Sugar
Shout Across the River
American Days
Strawberry Fields
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