Summary
Two great artists - Robert Louis Stevenson and Paul Gauguin - confront their own mortality in the strange and supernatural Polynesian islands they made their home.
‘Long pig: A white man to be eaten’
Deep in the Polynesian islands of the Pacific Ocean, hungry spirits circle the homes of Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson and artist Paul Gaugin, who lived and died on the islands only a few years apart.
Stevenson has spent thirty years in rigorous combat with the Grim R…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781848420410 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1848420412 |
| Author: | Nigel Planer |
| Publisher: | Nick Hern Books |
| Imprint: | Nick Hern Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 72 |
| Release Date: | 2 July 2009 |
| Weight: | 80g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 128mm x 5mm |
| Series: | NHB Modern Plays |
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Critics Review
‘no boring history lesson, but an opportunity to observe the artist, facing death, battle-scarred by the compulsion to create against reason’
‘A meditation on cultural identity… I left the theatre impressed by Planer’s curiosity and intelligence’
* The Times *‘No boring history lesson, but an opportunity to observe the artist, facing death, battle-scarred by the compulsion to create against reason’
* British Theatre Guide *About The Author
Nigel Planer
NIGEL PLANER is most famous as the drippy hippie, Neil, in The Young Ones and as one of the original members of The Comic Strip. As an actor he has played leads in many West End musicals such as Chicago, We Will Rock You and Wicked and has just taken over the role of Michael Ball’s husband in Hairspray. As Nicholas Craig, he wrote the spoof autobiography, I, an Actor - Another Great Actor Explores Himself. His previous play, On the Ceiling transferred from Birmingham to the West End and was published by NHB.
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