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Following
on from the great success of Pontac’s Shakespeare parody collection
Codpieces,
comes a collection of three more plays, each inspired by the work of other
playwrights. These plays are comedies about high culture: Chekhov in the first;
Wagner in the second; and several revered authors - as well as the world of
writers' workshops - in the third.
The collection includes the plays:
The Three Seagulls, a brief but comprehensive
parody of Chekhov with representative characters plucked from each of his
plays: a doctor from one, an eternal student from another, a household drudge
from yet another etc, with several of his plot-lines too.
The
Lunchtime of the Gods
,
originally a play for Radio 3 is a 30-minute version of Wagner's
Ring Cycle,
described as
‘hilarious’ by the
Guardian. Unlike Wagner's take, this is
quite an intimate piece, with only two main players sitting and talking and -
especially - eating in a restaurant on the Rhine.
The
Bards of Bromley
also
originated on BBC Radio and has been adapted for the theatre. It concerns the
first meeting of a writers' workshop at Bromley College, and promising writers
in attendance include William Wordsworth, George Eliot, August Strindberg, A A
Milne & Goethe.
Cast : 3M, 2F; 2M, 1F; 3M, 3F
Oberon Books, UK | 978-1-84943-427-0 | Sales: Australia/NZ only | PB
Author
PERRY PONTAC
was born in
California. He has been living and writing in London for over forty years. His
first play,
The Old Man’s Comforts,
was produced in 1973 by Kenneth Tynan. Since then, he has written numerous
plays and sketches including for the Royal Shakespeare Company (The Shakespeare
Revue) and the National Theatre (Metropolis Kabarett). His many radio plays
have been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and 4.
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