over illustration by Clare Buckle
"...PRINCIPIA SCRIPTORIAE,
a powerful and intelligent new play by the American Richard
Nelson, which explores the brutal and bloodied relationships
between politics and art, and between literature and life in a
Latin American country fiftee years ago and today...."
Michael Ratcliffe, The
Sunday Observer
"Modern American plays
rarely confront public issues head-on:
Indeed, after a year in New York, a colleague came home muttering
darkly about the prevalence of what he termed `diaper-drama'. But
Richard Nelson's rich and stimulating PRINCIPIA SCRIPTORIAE—now
at The Pit (The Royal Shakespeare Company) after playing at the
Manhattan Theater Club this April—is a genuine play of ideas. It
deals with the fate of the writer under left- and right-wing
regimes, with the complex motivation behind creation, and indeed
with the abiding consolation of literature itself...."
Michael Billington, The
Guardian
first produced at the Manhattan Theatre Club in New York, then by The Royal Shakespeare Company in London
7 M (with doubling)
PRINCIPIA SCRIPTORIAE with BETWEEN EAST AND WEST: Faber and Faber
I S B N 0-571-12905-6: $12.95