Noonday demons / Peter Barnes.
| Author/creator |
Barnes, Peter, 1931-2004 author. |
| Other author/creator | Barnes, Peter, 1931-2004. Plays one. |
| Format | Electronic and Book |
| Publication Info | London : Bloomsbury, [2013] |
| Copyright Notice | ©2013 |
| Description | 1 online resource |
| Supplemental Content | Drama online |
| Subject(s) |
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| Summary | St Eusebius is in devotional exile in the desert, alone apart from a tower of his own excrement, enduring extreme physical deprivation for the betterment of his soul and apologising to the maggots that live in his festering flesh. After a desperate struggle with a Cockney demon that speaks through Eusebius's mouth, he is challenged by St Pior, a rival hermit, to a bizarre duel of piety. With a mixture of slapstick, rhetoric, religious fervour and red-blooded vernacular, Barnes creates a comic theatre of opposites. 'Noonday Demons' was premiered with 'Leonardo's Last Supper' in 1969 at the Open Space Theatre. |
| General note | Previously published in print: in Plays one. London, Methuen Drama, 1996. |
| Source of description | Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on July 17, 2013). |
| Genre/form | Drama. |
| Standard identifier# | 10.5040/9781408162293.00000049 |
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