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- ISBN 9781849434270
- Format: Paperback
- Weight: 152g
- Dimensions: 130 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jun 2013
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Foreword by Maureen Lipman
Having produced a new Shakespearean canon in his previous collection of plays Codpieces, Perry Pontac turns his attention to other great names in European culture.The Three Seagulls is a Chekhovian comedy with representative characters drawn from each of Chekhov’s major plays, as well as a selection of his plot-lines. The Lunchtime of the Gods is Wagner’s Ring recycled into a thirty-minute play telling the entire story,plus several jokes not in the original. And in The Bards of Bromley,the first meeting of a writers’ workshop is attended by a group of unusually promising authors: William Wordsworth, George Eliot, August Strindberg, A A Milne and Johan Wolfgang von Goethe.
Perry Pontac was born in California. He has been living and writing in London for over forty years. His first play The Old Man's Comforts was produced in 1973 by Kenneth Tynan. Since then, he has written numerous plays and sketches, including pieces for the Royal Shakespeare Company (The Shakespeare Revue) and the National Theatre (Metropolis Kabarett). His many radio plays have been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and 4.
