Laughter! / Peter Barnes.
| Author/creator | Barnes, Peter author. |
| Other author | Barnes, Peter, 1931-2004. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | London : Bloomsbury, [2013] |
| Copyright Date | ©2013 |
| Description | 1 online resource |
| Supplemental Content | Drama online |
| Summary | 'Laughter!', first performed in 1978 at the Royal Court Theatre, London, is a two act play that dramatises the screaming cruelty of Ivan the Terrible - the 16th century Russian Tsar - and the anaesthetized bureaucracy which administrated the Nazi concentration camps in the 20th century. With his daring treatment of concentration camps, involving a music-hall style routine, Peter Barnes probes the cavity between comedy and tragedy, examining the mechanisms - among them laughter - which dampen atrocity. |
| 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# | 10.5040/9781408162293.00000093 |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |