Una favola per bambini ed adulti. Chi ha detto che dai fatti tristi della vita non si possa rinascere piugrave; forti di prima? Il mago Scarfutur distrugge la bellissima Cosmopoli; dove Camilla vive con i suoi animali. Alla ricostruzione crederanno solo il bassotto Oreste e lasino Luigi...
#1667932 in eBooks 2000-05-11 2000-05-11File Name: B00FF76UPM
Review
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Meaner than the average Gray playBy Steven R. SeveranceThis play from 2000 covers typical Simon Gray territory - two men; one woman; betrayal and lies. However it has an especially evil end that will probably leave a bad taste for most readers. I would avoid unless your taste is for plays that end in nastiness.1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Fine; absorbing drama works on many levelsBy A CustomerThis is a gripping; disturbing play - the ending is VERY powerful - about the consequences of irresponsibility. Two brothers and one woman have an easy-going; undefined relationship that ends up crippling them all. A child results - whose? Is anyone paying attention to her? This part of the play is very powerfully worked out to its remorseless conclusion. Edward Albee says that a good play is an act of aggression against; among other things; ones equanimity. This play does just that.On another level this play is about the consequences of some of us being talented and others not - one brother is a successful writer; the other is a drunk who must teach in the Third World. The resentments that build over this also play a part in the plays end. Each is hurt by the others existence.For a few readers; there is a third level to the play - Simon Gray based the Japes character on his brother; Piers; a heavy drinker who killed himself while teaching in Hong Kong in 1996. I dont know what Piers was really like; but the "Japes" character; for any readers whos lived in or knows Hong Kong; is a good example of the "F.I.L.T.H." type (i.e.; "Failed In London; Trying Hongkong"); and Gray provides a moving explanation of the inner motivations of one of those unpleasant/despicable types and gives such a creature some poignancy. In this sense; Japes is an interesting "Hong Kong Book;" and can be read after finishing the usual Hong Kong classics: Timothy Mos The Monkey King; Paul Therouxs Kowloon Tong; Jan Morris Hong Kong; and Bo Yangs The Ugly Chinaman.But mostly this is a gripping; smart; disturbing play for all of us.