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Belle Vue

Belle Vue

McLeish, Kenneth
Horvath, Odon Von

Paperback

Series: Oberon Modern Plays

Plays

ISBN10: 1870259734
ISBN13: 9781870259736
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Jan 1 1998
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.26
Height: 0.22 Width: 5.10 Depth: 8.12
Language: English

Horváth's setting for this black political farce is a seedy hotel in Central Europe in the 1920s where the only guest is a drunken, ageing nymphomaniac - wealthy and despotic. Under her sole occupancy the hotel is falling apart and sliding even deeper into decadence. There is no future and no hope until a young woman arrives with a fortune to spend. What follows is a riot of confusion and mistaken identities, satirising the despair and futility of a continent poised on the brink of fascism.

Horváth (1901-1938) was accidentally killed in Paris after fleeing from the Nazis. The Belle Vue, one of 16 plays, was not performed until 1969. This translation marked the British premiere, in a production by the Actors Touring Company.

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