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Bowen: Plays One: After the Rain; The Disorderly Women; Little Boxes; Singles

(Paperback)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

Bowen: Plays One: After the Rain; The Disorderly Women; Little Boxes; Singles

Contributors:

By (Author) John Bowen

ISBN:

9781840020359

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Imprint:

Oberon Books Ltd

Publication Date:

4th January 1999

Country:

United Kingdom

Classifications

Readership:

General

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Main Subject:
Dewey:

822.914

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

356

Dimensions:

Width 130mm, Height 210mm

Description

Includes the plays Little Boxes, The Disorderly Women and Singles. John Bowens plays, like his novels, are preoccupied with myth, manipulation and self-deceit. Bowens first major success as a playwright was with the epic and unconventional stage version of his novel, After the Rain, in 1966.

Author Bio

John Bowen was born in India in 1924 and reared by aunts and grandparents in the UK. After an uneventful war, he went to Oxford to read History. He began his writing life as a novelist and was recruited to television drama by the director, Peter Wood, then began writing for the stage. His first play, I Love You, Mrs Patterson opened at the St Martin's Theatre in 1964. His second, After The Rain, has been produced all over Europe as well as the USA, Canada and Australia, as has his third the double-bill Little Boxes. Of his other plays, Singles and The Corsican Brothers were first produced at the Greenwich Theatre, The Disorderly Women at Manchester, Florence Nightingale at Canterbury, Heil Caesar at the Midland Arts. He has also adapted Marivaux for the Chichester Arts Festival and Moliere for Lancaster.

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