The Great God Mogadon And Other Plays
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
From the irreverent pen of one of Australia's most celebrated comic dramatists comes a collection of plays that crackle with wit, absurdity, and a sharp satirical eye turned squarely on the follies of modern life. The Great God Mogadon and Other Plays presents a selection of Barry Oakley's most inventive stage works, including the darkly comic title piece in which the omnipresent cult of the sedative becomes a vehicle for skewering consumer culture, suburban numbness, and the desperate human search for meaning. Each play in the collection chronicles the comic and tragic misadventures of ordinary Australians caught in the absurd machinery of contemporary existence, rendered with Oakley's trademark blend of farce, pathos, and linguistic brio. Oakley occupies a singular position in Australian theatrical history, standing alongside the generation of writers who forged a distinctly local voice on the stage during the cultural renaissance of the 1970s. His dramatic style — restless, anarchic, and deeply humane — draws on the traditions of European absurdism while remaining rooted in the rhythms and idioms of Australian speech, producing work that is as politically pointed as it is riotously funny. For readers and theatre lovers alike, this collection illustrates why Oakley's plays continue to resonate: the laughter they provoke is never far from a more uncomfortable truth lurking just beneath the surface.
Author: Barry Oakley
Format: Paperback
Published: 1980, University of Queensland Press
Genre: Plays
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
From the irreverent pen of one of Australia's most celebrated comic dramatists comes a collection of plays that crackle with wit, absurdity, and a sharp satirical eye turned squarely on the follies of modern life. The Great God Mogadon and Other Plays presents a selection of Barry Oakley's most inventive stage works, including the darkly comic title piece in which the omnipresent cult of the sedative becomes a vehicle for skewering consumer culture, suburban numbness, and the desperate human search for meaning. Each play in the collection chronicles the comic and tragic misadventures of ordinary Australians caught in the absurd machinery of contemporary existence, rendered with Oakley's trademark blend of farce, pathos, and linguistic brio. Oakley occupies a singular position in Australian theatrical history, standing alongside the generation of writers who forged a distinctly local voice on the stage during the cultural renaissance of the 1970s. His dramatic style — restless, anarchic, and deeply humane — draws on the traditions of European absurdism while remaining rooted in the rhythms and idioms of Australian speech, producing work that is as politically pointed as it is riotously funny. For readers and theatre lovers alike, this collection illustrates why Oakley's plays continue to resonate: the laughter they provoke is never far from a more uncomfortable truth lurking just beneath the surface.