num_pages: 360
description: A selection of plays by "one of the most original and biting comic writers working in Britain" (The Times)The Spirit of Man is "an ingenious triple-bill exploring Man's need for faith through three short satires based in medieval France, Protectorate England and nineteenth-century Eastern Europe" (Independent); Nobody Here But Us Chickens is a linked trilogy of satires on New Age, corporate and bedroom politics. Red Noses is a political satire about the plague and takes place in 1348. Set in medieval Italy during a crisis in the Church, Sunsets and Glories is "a work of the highest and most thrilling theatrical energy" (Independent on Sunday), whilst Bye Bye Columbus is a "highly entertaining" (Guardian) television play."Peter Barnes is one of the unrecognised geniuses of the English theatre" (Plays and Players)
language: English
title: Plays 2: Red Noses / The Spirit of Man / Nobody Here But Us Chickens / Sunsets and Glories / Bye Bye Columbus
titlecomplete: Plays 2: Red Noses / The Spirit of Man / Nobody Here But Us Chickens / Sunsets and Glories / Bye Bye Columbus
genres: Plays
ratings_count: 21
publisher: Methuen Drama