{"product_id":"philistines","title":"Philistines","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSung at a funeral and a wedding today. The full gamut of the human experience from the ridiculous to the utterly pointless.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA restless bunch of young radicals hang out, have sex, dance, drink, moan and philosophise at the home of a prosperous decorator. While Pyotr, a sometime student of law, falls for the lovely, loose-living lodger, his sister carps on about the tedium of life, lusts after Nil \u003cb\u003e- \u003c\/b\u003ewho's blind to her charms but in pursuit of the servant \u003cb\u003e- \u003c\/b\u003eand botches her own suicide. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLife. People shout, fight, eat and go to bed. When they wake up? They start shouting again. In this house everything fades quickly. Tears, laughter. Everything. Dissipates. The last sounds ringing out over the lake. Then nothing. A banal hum.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA household falls to pieces as the personal and political turmoil of pre-revolutionary Russia gathers pace. Gorky's darkly comic first play of 1902, banned from public performance under the Czarist regime, is seen here in an exuberant new version by Andrew Upton.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePhilistines\u003c\/i\u003e premiered at the National Theatre, London, in May 2007.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54243633496408,"sku":"9780571238675","price":16.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780571238675.jpg?v=1765957513","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/philistines","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}