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William Douglas Home / Introduction By Alexander Paterson / Directed By Colin Chandler : Now Barabbas [Illustrated Drama / Dramatic Play, Theatre Type Play, play Acting Performance]

Longmans Green and Co 1947, Stated First Edition

Drama / Culture / Stage Plays. Hardback : hard cover edition in good to better condition, a typical used book with slight wear to edges and spine. Overall good / nice copy of this scarce title. Excellent reading on the subject. A good book to enjoy and keep on hand for yourself, or would make a GREAT GIFT for the fan / reader in your life. Reading is one of the great pleasures in life. Previous owner name and name plate inside front cover. About the author: William Douglas-Home wrote some 50 plays, most of them comedies in an upper-class setting. In the space of a month or two after his release he wrote two plays which were successful in London in 1947. The first Now Barabbas was based on his experience in gaol and in the latter some of the characters were drawn from his family. Although Douglas-Home was a prolific playwright, his works have neither the depth nor the durability of such near contemporaries as Rattigan or Coward. However, his play The Reluctant Debutante has been adapted twice into film. The first movie, made in 1958, retained the same title and featured Rex Harrison and Sandra Dee with a screenplay by the playwright himself. The second was released in 2003, under the title What a Girl Wants, starring Amanda Bynes, Colin Firth, and Kelly Preston. The remake features a hereditary peer in the House of Lords who disclaims his title in order to stand for election to the House of Commons; Alec Douglas-Home was one of the first to do that after the enacting of the Peerage Act 1963. As part of the 1975 centennial season of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, a specially-written curtain raiser by Douglas-Home, called Dramatic Licence, was played by Peter Pratt as Richard D'Oyly Carte, Kenneth Sandford as W. S. Gilbert and John Ayldon as Arthur Sullivan, in which Gilbert, Sullivan and Carte plan the birth of Trial by Jury in 1875. In 1949 Now Barbabbas was made into a film starring Richard Burton. Please send us a note if you have any questions. Thank you.. Illustr.: Illus with b/w Photos. Book

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