The Bards of Bromley and Other Plays

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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 Chekhovs major plays, as well as a selection of his plot-lines. The Lunchtime of the Gods is Wagners 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.

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"'The art of parody is still alive, and nobody can do it half as well.' The Tablet 'A hilarious compression of the story of Wagner's Ring.' Guardian on The Lunchtime of the Gods 'Perry Pontac's hilarious two-hander' The Times on The Lunchtime of the Gods 'Perry Pontac's hilarious play.' Independent on Sunday on The Bards of Bromley 'A finely scripted comedy with a superb conceit.' Time Out on The Bards of Bromley"

Author Bio

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.