'Written by hard-edged Northern poet Jim Cartwright back in the early 1990s' Scotsman - Joyce McMillan
Winner of the 1992 Evening Standard Best Comedy Award and the 1993 Olivier Award for Best Comedy,"The Rise and Fall of Little Voice is a cracker, original, hilarious and hauntingly sad" (Daily Telegraph) "Like everything Cartwright writes, Little Voice is playful, magical and terrifying, a view of the world from an unexpected angle, perpetrated by an imagination that notices the dust in the grooves of old records and finds poetry in garish, swanky clothes or the glitterball of a rowdy northern club" (Sunday Times) "A northern showbiz fairytale, a backstreet Cinderella story, with a built-in kick" (Guardian)
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Follows the fortunes of a young singer who escapes the clutches of her mother and manager to find her true "voice". This play by Jim Cartwright, author of "Road", premiered at the Royal National Theatre in June 1992, directed by Sam Mendes and produced by Michael Codron.
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Follows the fortunes of a young singer who escapes the clutches of her mother and manager to find her true "voice". This play by Jim Cartwright, author of "Road", premiered at the Royal National Theatre in June 1992, directed by Sam Mendes and produced by Michael Codron.
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The Modern Plays series is world famous for containing the work of many of the finest contemporary playwrights. Established in 1959 with the publication of Shelagh Delaney's A Taste of Honey, it remains a series synonymous with the very best in new writing for the stage. Today it features over 1000 plays and continues to grow alongside the staging of new work.
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Product details
ISBN
9780413671301
Published
1992-10-26
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC; Methuen Drama
Weight
134 gr
Height
202 mm
Width
122 mm
Thickness
6 mm
Age
G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
108
Author