by David Edgar · Nick Hern Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781854592927
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«Pentecost» is the play by David Edgar, published by Nick Hern Books in paperback (128 pages, in English).
In a ruined church in Eastern Europe, a fresco appears that could rewrite the history of Western art. Art historians, religious figures and politicians claim the work, and that dispute becomes a metaphor for the future of emerging nations. The arrival of twelve refugees triggers a confrontation.
The play premiered in 1994 with the Royal Shakespeare Company, won the Evening Standard Award for Best Play in 1995 and is part of David Edgar's trilogy on post-communist Eastern Europe.
For readers of contemporary British theatre and those interested in debates on cultural identity and artistic heritage in Eastern Europe.
David Edgar is a British playwright and writer who has had more than sixty of his plays published and performed on stage, radio and television around the world, making him one of the most prolific dramatists of the post-1960s generation in Great Britain. He was resident playwright at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in 1974–75 and has been a board member there since 1985. Awarded a Fellowship in Creative Writing at Leeds Polytechnic, he was made a Bicentennial Arts Fellow (US) (1978–79).
