1st Edition

Ireneusz Iredynski Selected One-Act Plays for Radio

Edited By Kevin Windle Copyright 2002
128 Pages
by Routledge

This vibrant anthology of radio plays features works by one of Poland's 'angry young men' playwrights. Ireneusz Iredynski made his début in literature as a Polish 'angry young man' in the late 1950s. He moved with great versatility from verse to stage plays, film-scripts and plays for radio. While some of the plays in this collection seem to present a bleak view of life, they show a gentler side... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 Ibis; Chapter 2 Before the Lecture; Chapter 3 The Radio; Chapter 4 Nobody Dances Like That Now; Chapter 5 The Terrarium; Chapter 6 First Prize; Chapter 7 The Window; Chapter 8 The Kidnapping; Chapter 9 The Garden Gate; Chapter 10 Quadraphony;

Biography

Kevin Windle has lectured in Russian at the University of Queensland in Brisbane and is now Senior Lecturer in Russian at the Australian National University in Canberra. He has published and edited numerous translations of works in Russian, Ukrainian and Polish literature, and a number of articles on Russian literature and matters of literary translation.