The Protagonists
Brenda Chamberlain
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Description for The Protagonists
Paperback. Never before published, written 'at white-heat in three weeks' in autumn 1967 after two visits to the detention island of Leros in the Greek Dodecanese, The Protagonists is Chamberlain's response to the right-wing Colonels' Coup of April 1967. Editor(s): Davies, Damian Walford. Num Pages: 120 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 130 x 11. Weight in Grams: 222.
Lemon, venetian vetches; orchis, fritillary. How hard to remember an olive tree when the soul is behind bars...Never before published, written 'at white-heat in three weeks' in autumn 1967 after two visits to the detention island of Leros in the Greek Dodecanese, the play is Chamberlain's response - both heartbreakingly lyrical and disturbingly visceral - to the right-wing Colonels' Coup of April 1967. A dangerous, dissident text that draws on the conventions of Absurdist theatre, The Protagonists is the dark culmination of Chamberlain's profound, career-long exploration of individuality, belonging, incarceration, imaginative freedom and the social ... Read more
Lemon, venetian vetches; orchis, fritillary. How hard to remember an olive tree when the soul is behind bars...Never before published, written 'at white-heat in three weeks' in autumn 1967 after two visits to the detention island of Leros in the Greek Dodecanese, the play is Chamberlain's response - both heartbreakingly lyrical and disturbingly visceral - to the right-wing Colonels' Coup of April 1967. A dangerous, dissident text that draws on the conventions of Absurdist theatre, The Protagonists is the dark culmination of Chamberlain's profound, career-long exploration of individuality, belonging, incarceration, imaginative freedom and the social ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Parthian Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
120
Condition
New
Number of Pages
120
Place of Publication
Cardigan, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781908069962
SKU
V9781908069962
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Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-26
About Brenda Chamberlain
Brenda Chamberlain was born at Bangor in 1912. In 1931 she went to train as a painter at the Royal Academy Schools in London and five years later, after marrying the artist-craftsman John Petts, settled in Caernarfonshire. In 1947 she went to live on Bardsey (Ynys Enlli) where she remained until 1961. After six years on the Greek island of ... Read more
Reviews for The Protagonists
'A work to which her whole oeuvre can be said to gather... profoundly confessional as well as a political cry.' Editor, Damian Walford Davies