{"product_id":"anouilh-plays-1-antigone-leocadia-the-waltz-of-the-toreasors-the-lark-poor-bitos-9780413140302","title":"Anouilh Plays: 1: Antigone; Leocadia; The Waltz of the Toreasors; The Lark; Poor Bitos","description":"\u003cp\u003eA selection of the most enduring work of one of this century's best-known French playwrights \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJean Anouilh (1910-87) along with Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, was at the forefront of the post-war generation of playwrights in Paris. In England his plays were championed by Peter Brook. Antigone is a response to the German occupation of France and established his popularity in 1944 (the Germans ironically, thought that it was a pro-Nazi in its portrayal of King Creon and thus allowed its production); Poor Bitos, Anouilh's angriest play explores the act of judicial murder and The Lark is a version of the Joan of Arc story. All three plays show his fondness for reworking myth, history and legend. Meanwhile Leocadia, about an opera singer who dies after a three day love affair with a prince and The Waltz of the Toreadors, about a general whose mistress attempts to prove his wife's infidelity, represent another talent - for ironic, modern comedy.\"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)\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Methuen Drama","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50324065714450,"sku":"9780413140302","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e139f2a9-cb47-4fb2-a843-3447dd0a8992.jpg?v=1727665856","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/anouilh-plays-1-antigone-leocadia-the-waltz-of-the-toreasors-the-lark-poor-bitos-9780413140302","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}