num_pages: 256
description: "Keeffe's plays mirror his time with absolute veracity. He is concerned and compassionate, reporting what he sees and offering no glib explanations or doctrinaire solutions."-Sunday Telegraph 		 				Gimme Shelter (Gem, Gotcha, Getaway): "This brilliantly and cleverly interlinked trio of plays are about fighting and acceptance ... Humanism and individuality are the lodestars sought for ... grim but beautifully humorous."-Guardian 		 				Barbarians (Killing Time, Abide With Me, In the City): "Captures unerringly and with unhistrionic force a sense of life down in Lewisham where unemployment is running rife and demoralizingly among the bored young ... it is not a grim play though the final implications are chilling. There is a raw and crude humor in the situation and language of these unemployed boys ... magnificently a play of today."-Guardian
language: English
title: Plays 1: Gimme Shelter / Barbarians
titlecomplete: Plays 1: Gimme Shelter / Barbarians
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Methuen Drama