The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

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Nick Hearn Books, 2010 - Drama - 95 pages
"Robert Tressell's classic pre-First World War account of the working lives of a group of housepainters and decorators. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists recounts the little daily successes and the disasters of a group of working-class men, living under the constant fear of being laid off by employers forever looking for new corners to cut. Both workers and bosses are caught in a system spiralling out of control, but why is it the workers always come out worse? Howard Brenton's vivid stage adaptation lays bare the many social injustices perpetrated on these men whilst capturing their individual characters with touching truth to life."--Page 4 of cover.

About the author (2010)

Howard Brenton was born in Portsmouth in 1942. His many plays include Christie in Love (Portable Theatre, 1969); Revenge (Theatre Upstairs, 1969); Magnificence (Royal Court Theatre,1973); The Churchill Play (Nottingham Playhouse, 1974, and twice revived by the RSC, 1978 and 1988); Bloody Poetry (FocoNovo, 1984, and Royal Court Theatre, 1987); Weapons of Happiness (National Theatre, Evening Standard Award, 1976); Epsom Downs (Joint Stock Theatre, 1977); Sore Throats (RSC,1978); The Romans in Britain (National Theatre, 1980, revived at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, 2006); Thirteenth Night (RSC,1981); The Genius (1983), Greenland (1988) and Berlin Bertie (1992), all presented by the Royal Court; Kit's Play (RADA Jerwood Theatre, 2000); Paul (National Theatre, 2005); In Extremis (Shakespeare's Globe, 2006 and 2007); Never So Good (National Theatre, 2008); The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists adapted from the novel by Robert Tressell (Liverpool Everyman and Chichester Festival Theatre, 2010); Anne Boleyn (Shakespeare's Globe, 2010 and 2011); 55 Days (Hampstead Theatre, 2012); # aiw

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
NHB Modern Plays Series
Translated byHoward Brenton
ContributorHoward Brenton
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherNick Hearn Books, 2010
ISBN1848421079, 9781848421073
Length95 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Drama / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Drama / General
  
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