Revolutionary witness and Nobody here but us chickens / Peter Barnes.Revolutionary witness and Nobody here but us chickens / Peter Barnes.
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Revolutionary witness and Nobody here but us chickens / Peter Barnes.
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85 p. ; 19 cm.
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Revolutionary witness. -- Nobody here but us chickens ; 8 characters (7m, 1w).
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REVOLUTIONARY WITNESS is a series of four direct and intelligent monologues about the French Revolution, excavating the individual voices from the historical tide. ‘The Patriot’ is spoken by a man selling souvenirs of the French Revolution: bones, stones and medals made from drawbridge chains are flogged as mementos of the uprising, and holy symbols of the new world order. ‘The Butcher’ is a man who has found it hard to understand very much, except that the Revolution was right and moral and its casualties deserve a hero’s pension. ‘The Preacher’ is a keen and articulate account spoken by a preacher with an uncompromising commitment to the revolution. ‘The Amazon’ is the complaint of a courtesan who led the mob wearing red silk on a black horse, and now sits mouldering in an asylum, recalling her life with unhinged lyricism. Each monologue is based on the story of a real survivor of the French Revolution.
NOBODY HERE BUT US CHICKENS is a trio of entertaining and challenging comedies about people with mental or physical disabilities, emphasising their individuality without patronization. The eponymous first part introduces George Allsop, a man dressed only his underpants who — very articulately — believes he is a chicken. He meets Charles Hern, who also believes he is a chicken, but has more sophisticated plans to go undercover as a man. In More Than a Touch of Zen two men with cerebral palsy attend a Judo class; their instructor is initially dismayed by their constant convulsions, but soon sees the beginnings of a brand new martial art. In Not As Bad As They Seem three blind people inadvertently enter into a bedroom farce as a wife tries to disguise from her husband that she is sleeping with his academic rival.
Production
4 parts ; 4 sets ; 3m, 1w.
First public performance : BBC TV, in July, 1989.
Director : Jonathon Dent.
ISBN
0413621707 (pbk) :
0413621707 (pbk)
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Caractéristiques
Men
Cote
D B261rev 1989
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