Update : our latest title, Sacred & Profane Love is due to be published on 15 April 2015, price £12.00, Euros 15. Postage in UK is £1.50 extra.
It will comprise two contrasting plays
by Edmond Rostand, the idealistic French poet, newly translated into
English prose from the original French:
The Woman of Samaria (La Samaritaine) and The Last Night of Don Juan (La Dernière Nuit de Don Juan). Both display his gift for the theatre,
his wit and his imagination. The subject of each play is the same: love, both sacred and profane, true and false. Both carry the message that Rostand wished to
convey in all his plays: the redeeming power of pure love, whether it be the
love of God or the love of a human being.
La Dernière Nuit de Don
Juan is
Rostand’s original take on the legendary seducer, who, on his way down to hell
with the Commander, has, Rostand imagines, negotiated with the devil for ten more
years of destructive life on earth. Now the ten years are up and the devil
returns in unexpected guise to reclaim him. Little by little the devil strips away all Don Juan's pride and arrogance, until he is fit for nothing but an unexpected personal hell. There are some marvellous moments of pure theatre and many witty exchanges along the way.
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