Tinniswood: Two Plays for One
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Tinniswood: Two Plays for One by Peter Tinniswood
Includes the plays The Last Obit and On the Whole It's Been Jolly Good In The Last Obit Millicent has been computerised. After a lifetime's work in the Obituary Department of The Morning Telegraph she has been made redundant. The paper, however, will allow her to go out in style: she can write her last obit in her own hand and with her own fountain pen. But whose obit will it be? She plunders her memories, fantasies and long friendships with the daft and the dead before making her final decision. In On the Whole it's been Jolly Good Sir Plympton Makepeace backbench Tory MP has been 'booted out' after sixty years of dedicated service in the house. Sixty years of dedication to mediocricity and sexual dalliances. Sir Pympton leads us down memory lane recalling his involvement in all the major events of the century, but his proudest claim is that he 'never did any harm.'
"One of our funniest writers" Observer
Peter Tinniswood (1936-2003) was an English scriptwriter, known for his comedy writing on radio and television. His translation of Eduardo de Filippo's Napoli Milionaria is published by Methuen Drama in De Filippo: Four Plays. Peter Tinniswood was born in Liverpool in December 1936. After leaving Manchester University he travelled and worked in Europe for a while until joining the Star in Sheffield in 1958. In the early sixties he wrote radio and TV satire until abandoning his full-time writing career. He wrote his first novel 'A Touch of Daniel' which was published in 1969. He has since written numerous novels, stage, television and radio plays.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781840023336 |
| ISBN 10 | 1840023333 |
| Title | Tinniswood: Two Plays for One |
| Author | Peter Tinniswood |
| Series | Oberon Modern Plays |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2002-08-16 |
| Number of pages | 94 |
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