A Place at the Table

Simon Block

ISBN 10: 1854594885 / ISBN 13: 9781854594884

Published by Nick Hern Books, GB, 2000

About this Item

A play about the dog-eat-dog world of television. Adam is a fringe dramatist plucked from obscurity by a script editor striving to make her mark in a small independent TV company. Because Adam happens to be in a wheelchair, Sarah proposes he writes the first ever TV sitcom about disability. He accepts the commission with predictably disastrous results.Simon Block's play A Place at the Table was first staged at the Bush Theatre, London, in 2000.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Place at the Table
• Publisher: Nick Hern Books, GB
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1854594885
• ISBN 13: 9781854594884
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 100 grams

About this title

Synopsis

Adam, a writer is recruited for television by a novice script editor, who sees Adam not for his talents but for his the wheelchair he sits in. Simon Block's biting satire of ambition and political correctness is an examination of the lengths to which people will go, to secure a place at the table of power.

About the Author

Simon Block is a playwright and screenwriter. His work for theatre includes: Not a Game for Boys (Royal Court); Chimps, Hand in Hand and Everything is Illuminated (Hampstead Theatre); A Place at the Table (Bush Theatre); and 1/25th of the National Theatre Chain Play (National Theatre).

His work for television includes: North Square (Channel 4); Trust (BBC1); The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall (Channel 4); Casualty 1909 (BBC1); The Eichmann Show (BBC 2); Home Fires (ITV).

Work for radio includes: Breathe In Breathe Out and The Pool (BBC Radio 4).