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Adult Supervision Sarah Rutherford

Adult Supervision By Sarah Rutherford

Adult Supervision by Sarah Rutherford


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Summary

The story of four middle-age mothers on a night away from their kids, as they get together to watch the 2008 US election. A new play on race and political correctness by Sarah Rutherford premiering at the Park Theatre.

Adult Supervision Summary

Adult Supervision by Sarah Rutherford

'I keep trying to find something a bit exotic in my family tree. Best I could do was a great-grandma who looks a bit tanned in the old photos.' US election night 2008. A smart inner-London 'village'. For white ex-lawyer Natasha, adoptive mother to two Ethiopian children, tonight is the ideal opportunity to get to know the small handful of other 'mothers of children of colour' at their smart private school. But as the Obamatinis start to flow, the middle-class veneer begins to crack and Natasha's carefully planned social occasion quickly unravels. Lifting the lid on a stew of racial tensions and social embarrassments, this is a hilarious, provocative and brilliantly insightful look at the new 'Beige Britain'.

Adult Supervision Reviews

A cracking new play ... A splendidly funny and often downright raucous comedy - a kind of Abigail's Party for the metropolitan, multicultural 21st century. ... Fascinating and frank about racial attitudes and prejudice while also being outrageously funny... A provocative and entertaining evening * Telegraph *
A sparky, modern, well-acted, highly watchable show ... Rutherford is a fresh voice * Daily Mail *
Fiercely funny stuff * Time Out *

About Sarah Rutherford

Sarah Rutherford has a first-class degree in English from Oxford University, and completed a PhD on Black Farce in Jacobean and 1960s Theatre alongside a career as an arts journalist and broadcaster. She then trained as an actor at Guildford School of Acting and worked in television and theatre for twelve years before becoming a playwright. Sarah's play What You Do To People was showcased at the Hampstead Theatre and workshopped by Park Theatre's Jez Bond. Adult Supervision premieres at Park in October 2013, having received a staged reading (under the title Tonight Is Your Answer) at Theatre Royal Stratford East, starring Tara Fitzgerald. Sarah has also written a play specially for Park called Allah in Neon, inspired by selected real life stories of local people. Her monologue La Barbe has been performed at the Salon Collective's Echo Chamber and at the Equal Writes event, and her writing was recently shortlisted for the Adrienne Benham Award.

Additional information

GOR006657408
9781783190591
1783190590
Adult Supervision by Sarah Rutherford
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2013-08-10
88
N/A
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Customer Reviews - Adult Supervision