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Betts: Plays Three: The Optimist; The Swing of Things; The Company Man

Betts: Plays Three: The Optimist; The Swing of Things; The Company Man

Betts, Torben

Paperback

Series: Oberon Modern Playwrights

Plays

ISBN10: 1840028246
ISBN13: 9781840028249
Publisher: Oberon Books
Published: Sep 1 2009
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.10 Depth: 8.20
Language: English

Includes the plays The Optimist, The Swing of Things and The Company Man

In this third volume of his collected plays Torben Betts portrays a world of floundering, sub-alpha males and suicidally miserable women, of bullying parents, torturous childhoods and failing relationships, characters all baffled by the most basic question: how do we live good lives and be happy in the modern world?

Set on Guy Fawke's Night The Optimist (2002) concerns a Government Defence Minister who must face up to the consequences of the choices he has made, both professionally and personally. The Swing of Things (2005) hilariously examines a world where status anxiety and affluenza seem to have corrupted the soul of a whole generation. In The Company Man (2006) a dying woman's last night is marred by the conflict between her accomplished yet emotionally damaged husband and their deeply troubled son.

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