The Plague: (after La Peste) [Paperback]

First published in 1947,The Plaguewas an immediate best-seller, striking a powerful chord with readers who were struggling to understand the fascist 'plague' that had just overwhelmed Europe. Seventy years later, author and director Neil Bartlett has adapted Camus' classic for our own dangerous times. Using just five actors, his frank and gripping new stage version uses Camus' original words to put chaos under the microscope and to find hope in the power of our common humanity.Neil Bartlett's plays, and his adaptations of Dickens, Wilde, Racine, Moliere and Marivaux, have been performed in the Lyric Hammersmith, the Glasgow Citizens, the Bristol Old Vic, the Manchester Royal Exchange and the National theatre.