Bøker av Mr Ronald (Playwright) Harwood

The play acts as a powerful metaphor for the present and all those post-authoritarian societies busy ransacking their pasts.' Guardian'A brave, wise and deeply moving play about the fatal confrontation between culture and power, between art and politics, between irresponsible freedom and responsible compromise.

'I belong nowhere.'Obsessed with power and fame, Gustav Mahler rejects his Jewish background and his friends with devastating consequences. Gustav Mahler (1860-1911), a composer and conductor of passion and genius, was born in Bohemia and faced a lifetime of prejudice - 'I'm homeless.

May 1945: victory in Europe and a Labour landslide in the UK. English traitor John Amery is arrested in Italy and brought back to London for trial. If convicted, he faces the death penalty. But his father is a senior politician. Surely the Establishment will look after its own.

In this volume four of Ronald Harwood's most successful plays - 'A Family', 'The Dresser', 'J.J. Farr' and 'Another Time' - are collected together for the first time.

A play which looks at questions surrounding culpability, revenge and retribution, universal responsibility and the possibility of evil. An elderly Ukrainian odd-job man, who had been brought to an upper-middle-class English household after World War II, is accused of war crimes.