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Road: "A surreal vision of the contemporary urban landscape uncomfortable and magical, funny and bitter. It is a northern Under Milk Wood, high on pills and booze" (Sunday Times). Bed: "Cartwright writes better about old people than anyone I know, except perhaps Beckett. This is an odd, harrowing and hilarious piece, entirely without sentimentality, sturdy but moving." (John Peter, Sunday Times) Two: "A sharp, salty quickfire evocation of the surface gaiety and underlying melancholia of English pub life." (Michael Billington, The Guardian). The Rise and Fall of Little Voice: "A northern showbiz fairytale, a backstreet Cinderella story, with a built-in kick." (Guardian)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #37810 in Books
• Published on: 1996-08-12
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 269 pages

Customer Reviews

The Best of British
Jim Cartwright is one of the key British playwrights of our time. His plays are a fusion of despair and hilarity, truth and the trivial, profanity and poetry. He is a very contemporary writer, with much to say about surviving modern Britain. "Road" is the chronicle of a single night in a dogend town. "Two" is one of the finest plays of the past twenty years - a treatise on couples which swings from the deeply funny to the highly threatening. Essential modern theatre - see what you've been missing!