Cover 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 15 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
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