The Pitchfork Disney by Philip Ridley

The Pitchfork Disney by Philip Ridley

Philip Ridley's great breakthrough work, reissued as part of Methuen Drama's genre-defining series, Modern Classics with a new introduction by Aleks Sierz.

It's one hell of a play, Philip Ridley's The Pitchfork Disney. . There's a deep artistry here and a searing vividness of imagination that leaves audiences shocked and subtly changed. * Scotsman *
A drama that defined the era of "in-yer-face" theatre. * Evening Standard *
Ridley's play, with its surreal fantasies, has an edgy, alarming potency of its own, the writing unfettered by any expectations of how a play should be. * Guardian *
Flamboyantly grisly first play . . . it blazed a trail for the edgy style that the critic Aleks Sierz dubbed "in-yer-face theatre" . . . in its provocative poeticism, in its mixture of the dreamlike and the dangerous . . . it fed into later works by Jez Butterworth, Mark Ravenhill, Sarah Kane and Anthony Neilson . . . a show that both depicts and deconstructs danger * The Times *
A cornerstone of the 'in yer face' theatre movement . . . Trauma-riven denial glints darkly in the dank, soiled poetry of Ridley's prose. * Stage *
Unsettling and gripping * Sunday Times *
A portal through which we access long-suppressed childhood fears from which we emerge with a ghost-train passenger's sense of survival. * Jewish Chronicle *

Philip Ridley is a contemporary artist, poet, novelist, film-maker and one of the country's most celebrated living playwrights. Ridley has been described as 'probably a genius' (Time Out) and 'the best British playwright of the last 20 years' (Aleks Sierz, author of In-Yer-Face Theatre). His plays include Ghost From A Perfect Place, Mercury Fur, The Fastest Clock in the Universe, and Vincent River.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9781472514004
ISBN 10	1472514009
Title	The Pitchfork Disney
Author	Philip Ridley
Series	Modern Classics
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published	2015-05-21
Number of pages	128
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