Derek and choruses from After the assassinations / by Edward Bond ; music by David Shaw-Parker.Derek and choruses from After the assassinations / by Edward Bond ; music by David Shaw-Parker.
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Titre
Derek and choruses from After the assassinations / by Edward Bond ; music by David Shaw-Parker.
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Description
47 p. : music ; 21 cm.
Collection
Contenu
Derek .-- Choruses from after the assassinations.
Sommaire
Derek is a short farce with the significance of social commentary, telling a story of waste and exploitation. The aristocratic Biff is the proud possessor of an Eton education, a Sandhurst polishing, and a mental age of a ten-year-old. To his disgust, some people have pointed out that because of the latter he should not be made a Member of Parliament. So Biff needs a genius desperate enough to sell his brain, and finds Derek, a floor-sweeper who has just outsmarted a safe and stolen two million pounds. The play is a comic but sharp critique of social stratifications which allow those with a privileged background to steal the life and self of those less fortunate, and send them to die in wars they don’t understand.
Production
4m, 2w.
First public performance : Royal Shakespeare Company (The Other Place), on October 19, 1982, Stratford-upon-Avon (England).
Director : Nick Hamm.
ISBN
0413547000
Sujets
Caractéristiques
Men
Cote
D B711d 1983
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