Road - Softcover

Cartwright, Jim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 057301664X ISBN 13: 9780573016646

Publisher: Samuel French, 1989

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

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.

Review:

Uncomfortable and magical, funny and bitter. It 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

About this edition

• Publisher: Samuel French
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 057301664X
• ISBN 13: 9780573016646
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 120