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Nicholas Wright: Five Plays (NHB Modern Plays) - cover

Nicholas Wright: Five Plays (NHB Modern Plays)

Nicholas Wright

Publisher: Nick Hern Books

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Summary

A rich selection of work from the late 1970s and 1980s, introduced by the playwright.
The plays contained in this volume are:
The Custom of the Country

An updating of Fletcher and Massinger's bawdy Jacobean drama.
The Desert Air

A wartime comedy set in Cairo.
Mrs Klein

A play about the controversial psychoanalyst.
One Fine Day

A comedy about the gulf that separates Britain and Africa.
Treetops

A play based on the author's own rebellious boyhood in South Africa.
Available since: 01/08/2017.
Print length: 416 pages.

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