Sue Glover Ordre des livres

1947. In a damp, run-down farmhouse on the island of Jura, George Orwell is embarking on his greatest work: Nineteen Eighty-Four. Forty-four years old and suffering from the tuberculosis that will eventually take his life, this book is his legacy - the culmination of a career spent fighting to preserve the freedoms which the wars and upheavals of the twentieth century have threatened. Completing the book is an urgent task - a race against death.Dennis Glover explores the creation of Orwell's final work, which for millions of readers worldwide defined the twentieth century. Simultaneously a captivating drama, a unique literary excavation and an unflinching portrait of a beloved writer, The Last Man in Europe will change the way you understand Nineteen Eighty-Fourand George Orwell himself.

Vůbec poprvé má česká divadelní obec možnost poznat dílo Sue Glover, která dnes bez nadsázky patří mezi žijící klasiky skotského dramatu. Tři hry obsažené v tomto souboru představují tři různé pohledy na ženu, vztah muže a ženy a různé obrazy postavení ženy ve společnosti. Ač ve všech případech hry sahají k námětům specificky skotským, Sue Glover v těchto námětech svou autorskou metodou otevírá témata, která mohou rezonovat i v českém divadelním světě. Svazek také obsahuje část vůbec první monografické studie Ksenije Horvath o dramatičce a souvislostech jejího díla.

Two plays of haunting lyricism by one of Scotland's most dynamic playwrightsBondagers, winner of the LWT Plays on Stage Award 1990, draws out the shadowy figures of women exploited as cheap agricultural labour in the Border country of the last century, evoking the rich sounds of a way of life, lived in servace to the gentry. In The Straw Chair, set in the first half of the eighteenth century (1735-40), seventeen-year-old Isabel and her minister husband arrive from Edinburgh on the remote island of Hirta (St Kilda). Their encounter with the island's isolated inhabitants, and especially the outspoken and fearless Rachel of Grange, will change their lives for ever.Bondagers: "One of the finest plays of the modern Scottish theatre.. It is raw an drough, warm and tender, funny enough to make your heart dance and movine enough to steal it away… This is a play that everyone should see." (Scotland on Sunday)The Straw Chair: "A beguiling combination of things, starting with the incredible story of Lady Grange, banished by her husband to the remoteness of St Kilda. Hung around this framework is an evocation, as light and sharp as spindrift, of the strange life on the island." (Scotland on Sunday)