Thorne, Anthony
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author, Theatre.
(1904-1973) UK playwright and author whose Thirteen O'Clock: A Play in Three Acts (1929) is set mostly in an unnamed "super City" in the moderately distant Near Future, where despite the efforts of its brave protagonist – who with the aid of his Invention of a powerful explosive blows up buildings as an act of protest – it proves impossible to destabilize rampant capitalism. The play closes on a vision of vast Underground cities, soon to be constructed by ruthless entrepreneurs. A novel, Young Man on a Dolphin (1952), edges toward the fantastic in its description of a man who because of a great wind finds himself to be the only male on an Island of women. [JC]
Eric Anthony Thorne
born London: 1904
died 1973
works
- Thirteen O'Clock: A Play in Three Acts (London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1929) [play: in the publisher's Contemporary English Dramatists series: pb/]
- Young Man on a Dolphin (London: William Heinemann, 1952) [hb/Biro]
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