Synopsis
Barnes Plays 2 - The Spirit of Man & Nobody Here But Us Chickens & Red Noses & Sunsets and Glories & Bye Bye Columbus
Published by Methuen
The Spirit of Man is "an ingenious triple-bill exploring Man's need for faith through three short satires based in medieval France, Protectorate England and nineteenth-century Eastern Europe" - Independent
Nobody Here But Us Chickens is a linked trilogy of satires on New Age, corporate and bedroom politics
Red Noses is a political satire about the plague and takes place in 1348
Set in medieval Italy during a crisis in the Church, Sunsets and Glories is "a work of the highest and most thrilling theatrical energy" - Independent on Sunday, whilst Bye Bye Columbus is a "highly entertaining" television play - The Guardian
"Peter Barnes is one of the unrecognised geniuses of the English theatre" - Plays and Players