Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Richard Quick trained for the theatre at Drama Centre, London. His writing includes verse and parody for BBC Radio 4âs satirical Week Ending⌠and a twenty year run as lyricist on Radio 2âs award-winning series The News Huddlines, working with many leading actors and comedians of the last decades. His BBC Radio 4 adaptations include The Larger Lunacy of Stephen Leacock, Educated Evans (Edgar Wallace) and his own book Simonâs Bug. Research in the 1970s brought him to Peter Greenâs translation of Juvenalâs Satires and â whatâs now become â a lifetimeâs passion for both writers.
The observation and lyricism delight and resonate
Time Out
A comic delight ... Callow comes on like a foul-tempered and thoroughly vicious Woody Allen
The Times
Richard Quick has adapted the vitriolic satires of the Roman ranter Juvenal into something resembling a night-club tirade by a reactionary comedian.
The Times
The uncanny parallels between decadent Rome and today flash, and the observation and lyricism delight and resonate.
Time Out
We emerge dazzled by the poetâs almost pathological sexual anger and disgust and affected by Mr Callowâs beautiful exposĂŠ of it.
Guardian
And now for something completely different - Simon Callow, theatrical treasure extraordinaire, reprises a success from early in his career. The writer, Juvenal born circa 55AD, wrote sixteen satires that attacked the decadence of Rome in its heyday. Here adapted by Richard Quick we are given a view into the moral decline that is as relevant now as it was back then.
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Richard Quick trained for the theatre at Drama Centre, London. His writing includes verse and parody for BBC Radio 4âs satirical Week Ending⌠and a twenty year run as lyricist on Radio 2âs award-winning series The News Huddlines, working with many leading actors and comedians of the last decades. His BBC Radio 4 adaptations include The Larger Lunacy of Stephen Leacock, Educated Evans (Edgar Wallace) and his own book Simonâs Bug. Research in the 1970s brought him to Peter Greenâs translation of Juvenalâs Satires and â whatâs now become â a lifetimeâs passion for both writers.