"The most important playwright to have emerged north of the border in years." (Scotsman) 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." (The 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." (Indpendent)
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"Europe", a play inspired by Bosnian refugees waiting in a bus on the border for a country prepared to grant them asylum, is a black, bleak comedy. The protagonist of "Architect", Leo Black, used to be an idealistic architect, but now his buildings and his family are falling apart.
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"Europe", a play inspired by Bosnian refugees waiting in a bus on the border for a country prepared to grant them asylum, is a black, bleak comedy. The protagonist of "Architect", Leo Black, used to be an idealistic architect, but now his buildings and his family are falling apart.
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The Modern Plays series is world famous for containing the work of many of the finest contemporary playwrights. Established in 1959 with the publication of Shelagh Delaney's A Taste of Honey, it remains a series synonymous with the very best in new writing for the stage. Today it features over 1000 plays and continues to grow alongside the staging of new work.
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Product details

ISBN
9780413708809
Published
1996-12-02
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight
300 gr
Height
200 mm
Width
122 mm
Thickness
14 mm
Age
G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
160

Author

Biographical note

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.