Anouilh Plays 2 The Rehearsal, Becket, The Orchestra, and Eurydice [Paperback]

A selection of the most enduring work of one of this century's best-known French playwrights

This selection of plays by Jean Anouilh (1910-87), includes The Rehearsal ('quintissential Anouilh', Herald Tribune); Becket ('witty, intelligent, full of repartee and irreverence' Financial Times); The Orchestra (a play within a concert), together with Eurydice, an ironic modern reworkng of the myth ('a fascinating piece', Financial Times). Anouilh is a poet but not a poet of words, he is a poet of words-acted, of scenes-set, of players-performing. (Peter Brook)

???Quintissential Anouilh.??? ???Herald Tribune

???Witty, intelligent, full of repartee and irreverence.??? ???Financial Times (Becket review)

???Fascinating.??? ???Financial Times (The Orchestra review)

???Anouilh is a poet but not a poet of words, he is a poet of words-acted, of scenes-set, of players-performing.??? ???Peter Brook, Director