Pentecost

First edition. 8vo. Pp. [xx], 105, [3]. Pictorial wraps.

Signed and dated by Author to title-page. Text-block edges lightly tanned, else Fine.

Winner of the 1995 Evening Standard Award for Best Play. First performed on the 12th of October 1994 by the Royal Shakespeare Company at The Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon. It subsequently played the Young Vic in London where it premiered on 31 May 1995.

The second in a trilogy of plays on the themes of mediation and conciliation set in Eastern Europe it revolves around the discovery of a mural in a small church. It was preceded by The Shape of the Table (1990), written shortly after the collapse of the Soviet Union and followed by The Prisoner's Dilemma (2001), which premiered shortly before September 11. "[T]he richest text to arrive on the English stage since Tom Stoppard's Arcadia." –Irving Wardle, Independent on Sunday