A selection of plays by \"one of the most original and biting comic writers working in Britain\" (The Times) The Spirit of Man is \"an ingenious triple-bill exploring Man's need for faith through three short satires based in medieval France, Protectorate England and nineteenth-century Eastern Europe\" (Independent); Nobody Here But Us Chickens is a linked trilogy of satires on New Age, corporate and bedroom politics. Red Noses is a political satire about the plague and takes place in 1348. Set in medieval Italy during a crisis in the Church, Sunsets and Glories is \"a work of the highest and most thrilling theatrical energy\" (Independent on Sunday), whilst Bye Bye Columbus is a \"highly entertaining\" (Guardian) television play. \"Peter Barnes is one of the unrecognised geniuses of the English theatre\" (Plays and Players)
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