The Chairs

4.50 ( 12 Ratings by Goodreads)
The Chairs

The Chairs

4.50 (12 Ratings by Goodreads)
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Published: 19 November, 1997
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In a house on an island a very old couple pass their time with private games and half-remembered stories. With brilliant eccentricity, Ionesco's 'tragic farce' combines a comic portrait of human folly with a magical experiment in theatrical possibilities.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9780571194513
ISBN10 0571194516
Number Of Pages 80
Item Weight 70 g
Product Dimensions 129 x 198 x 4 mm
Publisher / Reseller Faber & Faber
Format paperback
Edition Main
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Author's Bio

Martin Crimp was born in 1956. His play Attempts on Her Life (1997) established his international reputation. His other work for theatre includes Not One of These People, When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other, Men Asleep, The Rest Will be Familiar to You from Cinema, In the Republic of Happiness, Play House, The City, Fewer Emergencies, Cruel and Tender, The Country, The Treatment, Getting Attention, No One Sees the Video, Play with Repeats, Dealing with Clair and Definitely the Bahamas. He is also the author of three texts, Into the Little Hill, Written on Skin and Lessons in Love and Violence, for operas by George Benjamin. His many translations of French plays include works by Genet, Ionesco, Koltès, Marivaux and Molière. Writing for Nothing, a collection of fiction, short plays and texts for opera, was published by Faber & Faber in 2019.

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