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Description
The first volume of collected plays from acclaimed dramatist David Lan Painting a Wall: 'an essential theatrical image of the human condition' - Plays and Players Red Earth: 'Mature skill...in the course of a lunchtime, 70 years of South African history are played out with power and poignancy' - The Times Flight: 'a play that gives you faith in new writing' - City Limits Desire: 'a ballad and an act of faith' - Sunday Times The Ends of the Earth: 'The work of a genuine theatrical poet ...we should be so lucky to have ambitious, hypnotic writing in our theatre' - Observer 'These plays are unique in contemporary theatre; wonderful immersions into foreign worlds that touch our own' (John Lahr)
The first volume of collected plays from acclaimed dramatist David Lan
About the Author
David Lan was born in Cape Town where he trained as an actor. He moved to London in 1972, and has been artistic director of the Young Vic since 2000. He won an Olivier Award for the 2004 Young Vic season. Other awards include the John Whiting award, The George Orwell award and the Zurich International TV Prize.
Reviews
Painting a Wall: 'Lan's short political allegory...is a series of lulls and eruptions reflecting both the rhythms of work and the patterns of acceptance, anger and fuck-it-all humour experienced by anyone struggling to survive under an unjust system.' Bella Todd, Time Out London, 21.5.09
Book Information
ISBN 9780413736802
Author David Lan
Format Paperback
Page Count 304
Imprint Methuen Drama
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 300g
The first volume of collected plays from acclaimed dramatist David Lan
About the Author
David Lan was born in Cape Town where he trained as an actor. He moved to London in 1972, and has been artistic director of the Young Vic since 2000. He won an Olivier Award for the 2004 Young Vic season. Other awards include the John Whiting award, The George Orwell award and the Zurich International TV Prize.
Reviews
Painting a Wall: 'Lan's short political allegory...is a series of lulls and eruptions reflecting both the rhythms of work and the patterns of acceptance, anger and fuck-it-all humour experienced by anyone struggling to survive under an unjust system.' Bella Todd, Time Out London, 21.5.09
Book Information
ISBN 9780413736802
Author David Lan
Format Paperback
Page Count 304
Imprint Methuen Drama
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 300g
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