Max Frisch - Three Plays - Santa Cruz & Now They're Singing Again & Rip van Winkle

Two of the plays appear in this volume for the first time in English

Along with Jean Paul Sartre and Thomas Mann, Max Frisch, the great Swiss playwright and novelist, is one of the pre-eminent European thinkers of the second half of the twentieth century

These three plays show Frisch at his most innovative in exploring the challenges posed by modernity to the creation of an authentic self

"I write to pose a question in such a way that the audience, from that point on, is unable to live without an answer" ~ Max Frisch (1911 - 1991)

Santa Cruz, Now They're Singing Again and Rip Van Winkle (staged and published in their original German in the 1940s) are here given their definitive translation into English by Michael Bullock