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A selection of the most enduring work of one of this century's best-known French playwrights
This selection of plays by Jean Anouilh (1910-87), includes The Rehearsal ('quintissential Anouilh', Herald Tribune); Becket ('witty, intelligent, full of repartee and irreverence' Financial Times); The Orchestra (a play within a concert), together with Eurydice, an ironic modern reworkng of the myth ('a fascinating piece', Financial Times)."Anouilh is a poet but not a poet of words, he is a poet of words-acted, of scenes-set, of players-performing." (Peter Brook)
Jeremy Sams
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Jeremy Sams has translated for many productions for the National Theatre, ENO and Royal Opera House. He has directed numerous plays at the National Theatre, in the West End and on Broadway, and is a multi-award-winning composer, arranger and musical director.
Peter Meyer
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Peter Meyer's translations of four one-act plays by Feydeau (as From Marriage to Divorce) and Thirteen Monologues (six by Feydeau, seven by Cocteau) are also published by Oberon Books.
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