Format:
1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
Content:
Premiered at London's Royal Court Theatre in June 1973, 'Magnificence' has two plotlines. Firstly, five far-left revolutionaries squat in an unoccupied house in London, making a political statement about government housing policy before they are brutally evicted by police and bailiffs. Secondly, an ageing, homosexual Conservative cabinet MP loses faith in himself. The two plotlines converge in the final scene, where the revolutionary Jed threatens the MP with an explosive mask which fails to ignite. With an utterly helpless glance, Jed takes in the simultaneous vision of both the bomb gone wrong - the act gone wrong - and the face of his enemy - the system gone wrong
Note:
Previously published in print: in Plays one. London, Methuen Drama, 1996
Language:
English
Keywords:
Drama
DOI:
10.5040/9781408162873.00000019
