Barnes Plays: 2

A selection of plays by 'one of the most original and biting comic writers working in Britain' (The Times)The Spirit of Man is 'an ingenious triple-bill exploring Man's need for faith through three short satires based in medieval France, Protectorate England and nineteenth-century Eastern Europe' (Independent); Nobody Here But Us Chickens is a linked trilogy of satires on New Age, corporate and bedroom politics. Red Noses is a political satire about the plague and takes place in 1348. Set in medieval Italy during a crisis in the Church, Sunsets and Glories is 'a work of the highest and most thrilling theatrical energy' (Independent on Sunday), whilst Bye Bye Columbus is a 'highly entertaining' (Guardian) television play.'Peter Barnes is one of the unrecognised geniuses of the English theatre' (Plays and Players)