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Plays 1: Painting a Wall / Red Earth / Flight / Desire / The Ends of the Earth
The first volume of collected plays from acclaimed dramatist David Lan
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' - The 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)
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' - The 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)
304 pages, Paperback
First published June 3, 1999
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