Got to be Happy (NHB Modern Plays) - Softcover

Burt, Simon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1854597469 ISBN 13: 9781854597465

Verlag: Nick Hern Books, 2003

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Críticas:

'A lovely, warm and tender play - complex in its account of female loyalty and written superbly... There is something quietly inspiring about Burt's view of fragility and excess' What's On 'It's the gutsy, colloquial vigour of the dialogue and the shrewd insight into female friendship that make Burt's debut piece such an attractive proposition' The Times 'Burt... has an ear for the lively dialect of West Yorkshire, humour and sympathy, and he slips in multicultural issues unobtrusively... I can see this play becoming an instant Fringe favourite' Independent on Sunday

Reseña del editor:

Published alongside its premiere at the Bush Theatre, London - a sharp and lively second play from a promising new writer. Set in the kitchen of a non-descript pub in Wakefield, Got to be Happy concerns the lives of its four central characters: Caroline, 21, works as a waitress but is desperate to get to uni; her boyfriend Richard, 28, the pub manager, has plans to follow her and move up the catering hierarchy; Charley the chef, in his mid sixties, is a loner with a dark secret; and Connie, also in her sixties, turns out to be Charley's nemesis. Got to be Happy is a sharply poignant, but also funny and tender-hearted look at how each of the four tries to reconcile their hopes and dreams with the inevitable disappointments of life.

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• Verlag: Nick Hern Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1854597469
• ISBN 13: 9781854597465
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 96