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Principia Scriptoriae
Paperback
ISBN13: 9780881458954
Publisher: Broadway Play Pub Inc (Ny)
Published: May 28 2021
Pages: 78
Weight: 0.22
Height: 0.16 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
... PRINCIPIA SCRIPTORIAE, a powerful and intelligent new play by the American Richard Nelson, which explores the brutal and bloodied relationships between politics and art, and between literature and life in a Latin American country fifteen years ago and today...
Michael Ratcliffe, The Sunday Observer
Modern American plays rarely confront public issues head-on: Indeed, after a year in New York, a colleague came home muttering darkly about the prevalence of what he termed 'diaper-drama'. But Richard Nelson's rich and stimulating PRINCIPIA SCRIPTORIAE-now at The Pit (The Royal Shakespeare Company) after playing at the Manhattan Theater Club this April-is a genuine play of ideas. It deals with the fate of the writer under left- and right-wing regimes, with the complex motivation behind creation, and indeed with the abiding consolation of literature itself...
Michael Billington, The Guardian
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