Mood Music by Joe Penhall

Mood Music by Joe Penhall

‘Music is medication. The elixir of life. It’s for injecting into the blood stream to take away the pain…to promote euphoria…to adrenalise us and give us courage and fortitude’ In a top London recording studio, Cat, a young songwriter, her producer Bernard, their lawyers and psychotherapists go to battle over who owns a hit song. Amidst a gathering storm of bitter complaints and brutal recriminations Cat and Bernard inflict a devastating toll on each other in a war that only one of them can win. ‘The music industry isn't about healing heartbreak and vulnerability. It's about selling it’ A sly, wry exploration of the dark side of the music industry by the multi-Olivier Award-winning writer of Sunny Afternoon and Blue/Orange, Joe Penhall. This edition was published alongside the world premiere at The Old Vic, London in April 2018, directed by Roger Michell.

Penhall has the gift of making serious points in a comic manner and of conveying moral indignation without preaching * Guardian (on Blue/Orange) *
Funny and irreverent. . Penhall's writing is vibrant throughout * Independent on Sunday (on Blue/Orange) *
More than any of his peers Penhall has shown a rare aptitude for confronting headline issues of the day, using his gift of the gab as a dramatist to interrogate their underlying complexities and contradictions. * Daily Telegraph *

Award-winning writer Joe Penhall was described by The
Financial Times as 'one of the finest playwrights of his generation.' His debut
at the Royal Court, Some Voices, won the John Whiting Award for best new play.
His National Theatre play Blue/Orange won an Olivier Award, an Evening
Standard Award and the Critics Circle Award for Best Play. Joe wrote and
produced the BAFTA winning BBC serial Moses
Jones and his feature film of Some Voices starred Daniel Craig and
premiered in competition at the Cannes Film festival . This was followed
by Enduring Love, also starring Daniel Craig, based on Ian McEwan's
novel; and his adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's novel, The Road, starring
Charlize Theron and Viggo Mortensen, which premiered in competition at the
Venice Film Festival in 2009.

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ISBN 13	9781350089914
ISBN 10	1350089915
Title	Mood Music
Author	Joe Penhall
Series	Modern Plays
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Methuen Drama
Year published	2018-05-17
Number of pages	96
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