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Complicite Plays: 1 - (Contemporary Dramatists) (Paperback)
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- THE STREET OF CROCODILES is inspired by the life and stories of Polish writer Bruno Schulz (1892-1942).
- Author(s): Complicite
- 210 Pages
- Drama, General
- Series Name: Contemporary Dramatists
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The "Street of Crocodiles" creates a vision of provincial Poland in the early part of the century as a restless ocean of unending flux.Book Synopsis
THE STREET OF CROCODILES is inspired by the life and stories of Polish writer Bruno Schulz (1892-1942). "This astounding play creates a vision of provincial Poland in the early part of the century as a restless ocean of unending flux, the miracle of Complicite's interpretation of Schulz's stories" - New York Times
THE THREE LIVES OF LUCIE CABROL is adapted from John Berger's short story: "The story becomes an unsentimental evocation of peasant life, a hymn to the tenacity of love and a Brechtian fable about the world's unfairness....You follow this Complicite version as intensely as you read a Grimms' fairytale" Financial Times
MNEMONIC: "An ice-preserved body - from 5,200 years ago - forms the central image of Theatre de Complicite's dazzlingly imaginative meditation on memory and morality. Timely and unforgettable" - Independent
"Theatre de Complicite ignore frontiers and cross them without official papers" - John Berger