Four Plays: A Sense of Detachment / The End of Me Old Cigar / Jill and Jack / A Place Calling Itself Rome

Osborne here delivers his trademark eloquence, rage and devastating wit. A Sense of Detachment satirises our heartless, profiteering society, while defending timeless human values. The End of Me Old Cigar examines the decadent lives of a collection of leading media figures. The television play Jill and Jack is a comic gem that satirises the conventions of its own genre while also being a close study of sexual warfare. A Place Calling Itself Rome is a powerful reworking of Shakespeare's Coriolanus . From Her College Days Onward, Dawn Powell, Known Primarily For Her Novels And Her Diaries And Letters, Dreamed Of Becoming A Successful Playwright. Indeed, Over The Course Of Four Decades, She Finished At Least Ten Plays And Was Working On Fashioning Her Novel, The Golden Spur Into A Musical Comedy During Her Final Illness. Only Two Of Her Plays Were Mounted During Her Lifetime, However. This Volume Contains Both Of Those Works - Big Night Which Was Produced By The Legendary Group Theater In 1933, And Jig Saw, Which Was Staged By The Theater Guild The Following Year. These Are Fast-paced, Blunt-spoken - And Very Funny - Comedies That Directly Anticipate The Hard-boiled Satire Of Such Novels As Turn, Magic Wheel And Angels On Toast. Rounding Out The Book Are Two Unpublished (and As Yet Unproduced) Plays That Powell Wrote In The Late 1920s - The Experimental, Quasi-expressionist Women At Four O'clock And A Nostalgic Bittersweet Story Of Old New York, Walking Down Broadway, Which Director Erich Von Stroheim Would Later Adapt Into The Hollywood Film Hello, Sister!--jacket. A Sense Of Detachment -- The End Of Me Old Cigar -- Jill And Jack -- A Place Calling Itself Rome. John Osborne. Includes the plays A Sense of Detachment, The End of Me Old Cigar, Jill and Jack and A Place Calling Itself Rome Osborne here delivers his trademark eloquence, rage and devastating wit. A Sense of Detachment satirises our heartless, profiteering society, while defending timeless human values. The End of Me Old Cigar examines the decadent lives of a collection of leading media figures. The television play Jill and Jack is a comic gem that satirises the conventions of its own genre while also being a close study of sexual warfare.A Place Calling Itself Rome is a powerful reworking of Shakespeare’s Coriolanus. A collection of four plays from the legendary English playwright, screenwriter and actor John Osborne.