{"product_id":"parker-plays-1-9780413743404","title":"Parker Plays: 1","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Stewart Parker\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Stewart Parker was a playwright whose sense of history and elegance of wit and feeling were unusual in the British Theatre\" (Observer)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume includes four plays: Spokesong 'A dazzling play that combines warmth of sentiment with great emotional strength and intellectual playfulness ... a gorgeously rich play' (New York Post); Catchpenny Twist: 'The most appealing thing about Parker's work is the ease with which he blends lunatic humour with a gritty sense of reality. He's done it before in Spokesong and he does it again in this hard, ribald and hilarious little play' (Sunday Times); Nightshade: 'A rare delight ... A mixture of experiment, inventiveness, wit, sheer theatricality, obscure motifs and elements that are deeply moving ... It is a highly complex play; there is no story that is told in sequence, no meaning that can be easily grasped. But as theatre it is superb' (Hibernia); Pratt's Fall: 'A delicate, unusual and rather beautiful vehicle ... a fascinating and delightful entertainment ... Parker's chosen approach is to tackle serious themes - often related to the experience of his native Northern Ireland - through a kind of lyrical comedy, deceptively lightweight, fast-moving, and slightly surreal' (Sunday Standard)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45085661855895,"sku":"9780413743404","price":2963.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780413743404.webp?v=1767265267","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/parker-plays-1-9780413743404","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}