Barnes Plays 3: Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie, Heaven's Blessings, Revolutionary Witness (Contemporary Dramatists Serie
by Peter Barnes
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A selection of plays by "one of the most original and biting comic writers working in Britain" (The Times) Clap Hands Here Comes Charlie is a riotous, scabrous comedy concerning a demonic figure, a destroyer and giver of life, who is always trying to jump, with both feet into his left trouser leg. Heaven's Blessings, taken from the grim pages of the Bible is a charming epic comedy of Tobit, his wife, their son and a cantankerous guardian angel, who set out to reclaim an outstanding IOU, show more overcoming many dangers which test their faith to breaking point. Revolutionary Witness, about the French Revolution, is a series of four monologues televised by the BBC in 1989. "Peter Barnes is one of the unrecognised geniuses of the English theatre" (Plays and Players). show lessTags
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