Happy Now? by Lucinda Coxon
A painfully truthful, darkly comic take on contemporary life and how to survive it. A chance encounter at a conference hotel plays upon Kitty's mind as she struggles to balance personal freedom with family life, fidelity and a testing job. Her husband seems more interested in misplaced apostrophes than his marriage, her parents are looking down the barrel of oblivion and, although she might toy with joining a gym, Kitty's running out of time for big changes. Lucinda Coxon's play Happy Now? was first staged at the National Theatre, London, in 2008.'The best new play to have arrived on a British stage for at least a year.. unsparing observation, baleful humour and underlying compassion... a richly rewarding gem of a play'
* Telegraph *'Wonderfully funny and painfully accurate... hits nail after nail on the head'
* Independent *'Everything about the play rings with a horrible truth, and the writing is consistently funny and flecked with pain'
* Whatsonstage.com *
Lucinda Coxon is an English playwright and screenwriter. Her plays include: a version of Ibsen's John Gabriel Borkman (Bridge Theatre, London, 2022); Alys, Always, adapted from the novel by Harriet Lane (Bridge Theatre, London, 2019); Herding Cats (Ustinov Theatre, Bath, 2010, & Hampstead Theatre, 2011); and Happy Now? (National Theatre, 2008). Her screenplays include The Danish Girl, The Crimson Petal and the White and The Little Stranger.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781854595607 |
| ISBN 10 | 1854595601 |
| Title | Happy Now? |
| Author | Lucinda Coxon |
| Series | Nhb Modern Plays |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Nick Hern Books |
| Year published | 2008-01-17 |
| Number of pages | 112 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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