Description
Product ID: | 9781408152164 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | Contemporary Dramatists |
Title: | Bartlett Plays: 1 |
Subtitle: | Not Talking, My Child, Artefacts, Contractions, Cock |
Authors: | Author: Mike Bartlett |
Page Count: | 368 |
Subjects: | Plays, playscripts, Plays, playscripts |
Description: | Select Guide Rating This first collection of Mike Bartlett's plays showcases the adroit expertise and flair of a writer known for laser-sharp political comment, tight dialectics and needlingly real characters. Charting Mike Bartlett's stellar rise as a playwright, this volume is introduced by Sacha Wares. This first collection of Mike Bartlett''s plays showcases the adroit expertise and flair of a writer known for laser-sharp political comment, tight dialectics and needlingly real characters.My Child is a gut-wrenching exploration of the lengths a father will go to to have access to his child. The play creates a violent world where good intentions count for very little, and offers an incisive, honest look at what it means to be a good parent.Contractions is an ink-black comedy about work and play: Emma''s been seeing Darren. She thinks she''s in love. Her boss thinks she''s in breach of contract. The situation needs to be resolved. Artefacts depicts a father-daughter reunion which, after 16 years, crosses between the world of a British teenager and an Iraqi expert in antiquity, and is complicated by the ambivalent gift of a precious Mespotamian vase. Cock is a punchy play which takes a playful, candid look at one man''s sexuality and the difficulties that arise when you realise you have a choice. |
Imprint Name: | Methuen Drama |
Publisher Name: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2011-10-17 |