Road by Jim Cartwright
Under the guidance of the rum-soaked wideboy Scullery, we are taken on an evening's tour of a scruffy, depressed road in a small Lancashire town. Moving from street corner to living room, from bedroom to kitchen, we meet the inhabitants of young, middle-aged, and old, glimpsing their socially and emotionally wretched lives, in this sharp, sad, funny, and angry play.
Uncomfortable and magical, funny and bitterIt is a northern Under Milk Wood, high on pills and booze * Sunday Times *
Road is indeed an original, affecting, rumbustious and truly remarkable piece of work * Financial Times *
The writing [is] so immediate and entertaining too. As a first piece of work [it] is absolutely seminal. * Guardian *
...Jim Cartwright's 1986 account of a community scarred by unemployment that couldn't be more relevant or rousing...**** -- The Guardian
Road is a hard, occasionally transcendent evening and also a gauntlet to modern playwrights...**** -- The Telegraph
...Cartwright's vivid language, with its ugly-beautiful poetry, its rage and compassion, still grabs you by the heart and throat and squeezes, hard. **** -- The Times
...its message comes at us with a vengeance. -- The Radio Times
Road is indeed an original, affecting, rumbustious and truly remarkable piece of work * Financial Times *
The writing [is] so immediate and entertaining too. As a first piece of work [it] is absolutely seminal. * Guardian *
...Jim Cartwright's 1986 account of a community scarred by unemployment that couldn't be more relevant or rousing...**** -- The Guardian
Road is a hard, occasionally transcendent evening and also a gauntlet to modern playwrights...**** -- The Telegraph
...Cartwright's vivid language, with its ugly-beautiful poetry, its rage and compassion, still grabs you by the heart and throat and squeezes, hard. **** -- The Times
...its message comes at us with a vengeance. -- The Radio Times
Jim Cartwright is an award-winning and internationally acclaimed playwright and screenwriter. His plays are consistently in production, have been translated into over 35 languages, and have been performed in most major theatres of the world, including the West End of London, Royal Court, National Theatre and Broadway. His theatre works include, amongst many others, Road, Bed, Two, The Rise and Fall of Little Voice and King of the Teds.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781350053816 |
| ISBN 10 | 1350053813 |
| Title | Road |
| Author | Jim Cartwright |
| Series | Modern Plays |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2017-08-04 |
| Number of pages | 104 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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