Alan Ayckbourn's play is about a very ordinary teenager called Lucy.
With her father glued to the cowboys on the telly, her mother
preoccupied with neighbourly gossip and her brother enclosed in his
ear-phones, no one wants to know about her place in the school
swimming team. So Lucy revives her childhood fantasy friend, Zara,
setting a place for her at the very ordinary tea table. This time Zara
materializes, bringing with her an idealized father and brother, and
showing Lucy how to make her real family vanish. The moral of this
cautionary tale is carefully spelt out - that when you get what you
want it's not what you wanted - as Lucy's dream family turns out to be
a nightmare. The play is supposedly for children of seven upwards, but
there's a message here for parents, too, about listening to kids.
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780571325771
Publisert
2015
Utgiver
Faber & Faber
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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