Little Voice (LV) lives alone with her mother Mari, whose sole purpose in life is to find a man. When Mari's latest catch - Ray -hears LV's impersonations of famous singers, he rushes to exploit it, and the result destroys LV. Finally, however, LV regains the courage to speak and sing in her own voice.
Little Voice (LV) lives alone with her mother Mari, whose sole purpose in life is to find a man. When Mari's latest catch - Ray -hears LV's impersonat...
In the course of one wild night, the drunken guide Scullery conducts a tour of Road, his derelict Lancashire street. This play was premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London in 1986 and has won the Samuel Beckett Award and the George Devine Award.
In the course of one wild night, the drunken guide Scullery conducts a tour of Road, his derelict Lancashire street. This play was premiered at the Ro...
Two 'A sharp, salty, quickfire evocation of the surface gaiety and underlying melancholia of English pub life.' The Guardian
Bed 'It's insights into the twilight world of old age are remarkable, Cartwright's ode to sleep fizzes with puns and free association and brims with the confidence of a craftsman who can work as happily with surrealism as naturalism as he teases out snippets of life story from the ancient occupants of the bed.' City Limits
'This extraordinarily gifted and original voice . . . populates the space with broad...
Two 'A sharp, salty, quickfire evocation of the surface gaiety and underlying melancholia of English pub life.' The Guardian
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.
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. Movi...
Friday night, first thing, the tanning shop, a good nine-minute blaster
Meet Shane, one of the low-paid generation that lives for the weekend while still living at home. Come on the raz with him and his boys as he hits the town for all it's worth - tanned, buffed and blowing his wage packet: a weekend millionaire. Tonight he's in charge, living it large. On Monday, it's back to the grind and he starts all over again. At turns bitingly funny and heartbreaking, Raz takes you on an illuminating rollercoaster of a night out in modern Britain.
Friday night, first thing, the tanning shop, a good nine-minute blaster
Meet Shane, one of the low-paid generation that lives for the...
