Description

Date: 1994
Theatre: Les Parents Terribles by Jean Cocteau
Performance: The National Theatre, London
Principal Actors: Frances de la Tour, Jude Law, Alan Howard, Sheila Glish, Lynsey Baxter, Sean Mathias, Stephen Brimson Lewis, Jeremy Sams.

This rather special programme not only presents the iconic play Les Parents Terribles, newly translated by Jeremy Sams, with a cast of very well-known names, it contains some fabulous photographs of the innovative Jean Cocteau with other artistes of the day: Edith Piaf, Maria Callas, W. H. Auden, Jean Morais, Serge Diaghilev, Marlene Dietrich. It also includes a chronological bio from 1889 -1963 and Simon Callow offers us an insight to Jean Cocteau’s life in his inimitable fashion

40 pages including cover; 24 cms x 16.5cms