The Unexpected Man: A Play - Softcover

Reza, Yasmina

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571196047 ISBN 13: 9780571196043

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 1998

Synopsis

A train compartment. A man and a woman. In a series of dazzling internal monologues, the man, a novelist, muses on his latest work, and considers life and the futility of writing. The woman thinks of her life in the full knowledge that the man she is facing is the novelist she admires and whose latest work she has tucked in her handbag.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

Sir David Suchet and Dame Harriet Walter star in Yasmina Reza's The Unexpected Man, translated by Christopher Hampton. A notorious author shares a train compartment with a long-time reader. But can they connect with each other through a silent tide of self-doubt and second-guessing?

Includes and interview with cast members Sir David Suchet and Dame Harriet Walter.

An L.A. Theatre Works performance featuring Sir David Suchet and Dame Harriet Walter.

About the Author:

Yasmina Reza, born in Paris in 1959, is an acclaimed playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. Her first play, Conversations Après un Enterrement (Conversations After a Burial) won her the 1987 Molière Award for Best Author along with a Johnson Foundation Award and a SACD New Talent Award. Her other works for the theater include Art and The Unexpected Man, among others. She lives in Paris.

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0571196047
• ISBN 13: 9780571196043
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 80