The Unexpected Man
The Unexpected Man
Christopher Hampton, Yasmina Reza, Yasmina Reza
ISBN: 9780571221912
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Overview
A train compartment. A man and a woman. In a series of internal monologues, the man, a novelist, muses on his latest work, contemplates the futility of writing and considers his existence. The woman thin's of her life, loves and frien'ships in the full knowledge that the man'she is facing is the novelist she admires. The play, in this translation was premiíÂred by the RSC at the Pit Theatre, London, in 1998. Available in the volume Yasmina Reza: Plays 1.
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- Time Period: Contemporary
- Target Audience: Appropriate for All Audiences
Authors
Christopher Hampton
Christopher Hampton became involved in theatre while studying French and German at Oxford University, and wrote a play in his first year.
The Royal Court's subsequent production was so successful that it transferred to the Comedy Theatre while he was still a student, making hi ...
Yasmina Reza
Yasmina Reza
Yasmina Reza is a French playwright and novelist, based in Paris, whose works have all been multi-award-winning, critical and popular international successes.
Her plays, Conversations After a Burial, The Passage of Winter, Art, The Unexpected Man, Life x 3 and A Spanish Pl ...