The first collection of plays from one of Britain's finest young writers Spoonface Steinberg, Lee Hall's extraordinary, award-winning play about faith, love and the meaning of life was first broadcast on Radio Four in 1997 to unprecedented acclaim. It "contains a good deal more truth than a thousand lectures on the nature of existence" (Guardian). Cooking with Elvis is an Ortonesque black comedy about the family of a famous Elvis impersonator who is now tied to a wheelchair. "Disgracefully entertaining" (Daily Telegraph); "So sharp it could cut itself as it piles on the humour" (Guardian). Bollocks! is inspired by Ernst Toller's masterpiece Hinkemann. Re-located to Northern Ireland it is an examination of the impotence of lives ruined by war. Also included here are six previously unpublished radio and stage plays that prove Hall's talent as our pre-eminent contemporary writer of black comedy.
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A collection of 8 plays by British black comedy writer Lee Hall. It includes: "Spoonface Steinberg", a play on faith, love and the meaning of life; "Cooking with Elvis", the story of a family of an Elvis impersonator now tied to a wheelchair; and "Bollocks!", an examination of lives ruined by war.
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Cooking with Elvis;Spoonface Steinberg;Bollocks;Genie;Two's Company;I Love You; Jimmy Spud...
Spoonface Steinberg won the Writers' Guild Award for best radio play winner in 1997, and Lee Hall is also known as the stage, radio and film dramatist whose screenplay "Billy Elliot" was made into t he 2000 film directed by Stephen Daldry.
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Spoonface Steinberg won the Writers' Guild Award for best radio play winner in 1997, and Lee Hall is also known as the stage, radio and film dramatist whose screenplay "Billy Elliot" was made into t he 2000 film directed by Stephen Daldry.
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The Contemporary Dramatists series celebrates the work of individual writers, bringing together into single volumes a number of plays from their oeuvre. Each volume includes a chronology of the writer's work and an introduction to the plays featured. The series is truly international with collections from leading French, German, Italian and American writers, as well as the best of British playwrights. Taken as a whole, it represents an index of great contemporary playwriting.
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780413771919
Publisert
2002-05-09
Utgiver
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Vekt
328 gr
Høyde
202 mm
Bredde
124 mm
Dybde
20 mm
Aldersnivå
G, U, P, 01, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
311
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