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David Hirson - La Bete - 9781848421141 - V9781848421141
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La Bete

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Description for La Bete Paperback. In this wildly distinctive comedy set in 17th-century France, a vulgar and impossibly self-obsessed writer/perfomer attempts to win the favour of a Royal Personage and ignominiously oust his high-minded rival. All is accomplished in a virtuoso cascade of rhyming couplets! Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 10. Weight in Grams: 148.

Written in a blaze of rhyming couplets, La Bête is an exuberant, wildly distinctive comedy that encompasses timeless concerns about life and art. Winner of the Olivier Award for Best New Comedy.

Elomire, high-minded head of the Royal theatre troupe, is incensed. His patron, the Princess, has decreed that the Court ensemble admit a new actor – the scandalously boorish street entertainer, Valere. With Elomire's pride and the troupe's livelihood on the line, the company is duty-bound not only to accept the outrageous troubadour, but to perform one of his ludicrous plays, an event that has dramatic ... Read more

David Hirson's La Bête opened on Broadway in February 1991 at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre, and had its UK premiere at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, in 1992.

A new production, directed by Matthew Warchus and starring Mark Rylance, opened at the Comedy Theatre in the West End in June 2010, and subsequently transferred to Broadway.

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Product Details

Publisher
Nick Hern Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848421141
SKU
V9781848421141
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-50

About David Hirson
David Hirson is an American dramatist, best known for his award-winning Broadway comedies, La Bête and Wrong Mountain.

Reviews for La Bete
'A gutsy, genuinely original writer who revels in extremes of intellectual virtuosity and pop culture savvy'
Newsday
'A tour-de-force that dazzles the audience'
Time Out
'Wow!... Grown-up panto, clever and deep... you'll never see anything quite like it again'
The Times
'This is a play that is all about language. It is clever without ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for La Bete


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