Synopsis
Lan Plays 1 - Painting a Wall & Red Earth & Flight & Desire & The Ends of the Earth
Published by Methuen
Painting a Wall - 'an essential theatrical image of the human condition - Plays and Players
Red Earth - 'Mature skill . . .in the course of a lunchtime, 70 years of South African history are played out with power and poignancy' - Times
Flight - 'a play that gives you faith in new writing ' - City Limits
Desire - 'a ballad and an act of faith' - Sunday Times
The Ends of the Earth - 'The work of a genuine theatrical poet . . . we should be so lucky to have ambitious, hypnotic writing in our theatre' - Observer
"These plays are unique in contemporary theatre; wonderful immersions into foreign worlds that touch our own" - John Lahr