Live Theatre: Six Plays from the North East : Filletting Machine; My Heart's Delight; Shooting the Legend; Wittengenstein on Tyne; Laughter; Cold Paperback / softback
by Alan Plater, C. P. Taylor, Julia Darling, Lee Hall, Sean O'Brien, Tom Hadaway
Part of the Play Anthologies series
Paperback / softback
Description
Published to tie in with the legendary Live Theatre's thirtieth birthday celebrations Spanning three generations, Live Theatre is a celebration of the finest playwrights from the North East.
In The Filleting Machine (Tom Hadaway), a fishing family's way of life faces extinction; in You Are My Heart's Delight (C.P.
Taylor), the lights are switched out in the house of a gamekeeper and his sister who have resisted change for years; Shooting the Legend (Alan Plater) is a comedy of cultural errors in which two women prepare to make a documentary about the 'socially deprived' of Gateshead; in Wittgenstein on Tyne (Lee Hall), Wittgenstein is caught red-handed when working as a hospital porter on Tyneside; Laughter When We're Dead (Sean O'Brien) is a modern revenge tragedy set around the politics of old versus new labour while Cold Calling (Julia Darling) is a dark comedy about a door-to-door salesman.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:304 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:04/12/2003
- Category:
- ISBN:9780413774095
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:304 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:04/12/2003
- Category:
- ISBN:9780413774095
