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Torben Betts - Betts: Plays Two: Incarcerator; Five Visions of the Faithful; Silence and Violence; The Biggleswade; The Last Days of Diser - 9781840022001 - V9781840022001
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Betts: Plays Two: Incarcerator; Five Visions of the Faithful; Silence and Violence; The Biggleswade; The Last Days of Diser

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Description for Betts: Plays Two: Incarcerator; Five Visions of the Faithful; Silence and Violence; The Biggleswade; The Last Days of Diser Paperback. The second collection of plays from Torben Betts, published by Oberon Books. Includes the plays Incarcerator, Five Visions of the Faithful, Silence and Violence, The Last Days of Desire, The Biggleswades. With an Introduction by David Pownall, and an essay by Peter Craze Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 131 x 210 x 19. Weight in Grams: 438.
Includes the plays Incarcerator, Five Visions of the Faithful, Silence and Violence, The Last Days of Desire, The Biggleswades. With an Introduction by David Pownall, and an essay by Peter Craze A volume of language-rich, theatrically-ambitious tragedies. Betts' hugely popular verse drama Incarcerator (White Bear and BAC) was a Time Out Critics' Choice, while his Five Visions of the Faithful (White Bear), is a series of uncompromising narratives exploring freedom, faith, death and desire. In Silence and Violence the wife of a war hero seduces a much-reviled sculptor as Betts examines the artist's quest for self-expression in a ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781840022001
SKU
V9781840022001
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About Torben Betts
Torben Betts read English Literature & English Language at the University of Liverpool before training and working as an actor. Works include: The Unconquered, Best New Play 2007 Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland (Tron/Traverse/Arcola/Brits-off-Broadway); A Listening Heaven, nominated for Best New Play at the 2001 TMA Awards (Edinburgh Royal Lyceum); Lie of the Land, nominated for Edinburgh Fringe ... Read more

Reviews for Betts: Plays Two: Incarcerator; Five Visions of the Faithful; Silence and Violence; The Biggleswade; The Last Days of Diser
"Betts is an immensely promising talent destined for great things" What's On 'just about the most original and extraordinary writer of drama we have...a boldly visionary poet...a political Beckett...a flamingly original writer we ignore at our peril.' LIZ LOCHHEAD, NATIONAL POET OF SCOTLAND 'an uncommonly talented playwright'. TIME OUT 'Betts has a profound ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Betts: Plays Two: Incarcerator; Five Visions of the Faithful; Silence and Violence; The Biggleswade; The Last Days of Diser


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