A painful - and painfully funny - play about being very young and in
love - and coping with serious illness at the same time. Rachel and
Peter are seventeen. They have been going out for six months. It's
love's young dream. Then Rachel gets ill - seriously ill. She doesn't
want her mum to fuss; she doesn't want Alice to pretend she's her best
friend; and she certainly doesn't want Alice's boyfriend telling bad
jokes at her bedside. The only person she wants is Peter, but Peter
doesn't know what it is that he wants. When You Cure Me premiered at
the Bush Theatre, London, in 2005. 'In one of the year's finest pieces
of new writing... a compassionate, gripping portrait of a fledgling
relationship that is asked to bear more than many well-established
marriages' Evening Standard 'painstakingly honest... acutely observant
of the petty rivalries and jealousies that sickness provokes' Guardian
'[has] a merciless precision... a brave piece of writing that, with
its damaged and angry heroine, unflinchingly shows us not a vision of
saintly suffering, but a far more engagingly human struggle for
survival' The Times
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ISBN
9781780012421
Publisert
2015
Utgiver
Vendor
Nick Hern Books (FF)
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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