‘Fucking Frogs! My grandfather didn’t die in the English Civil War so’s half the population of France could come over here and live off the soup!’
A riotous journey through four waves of immigration from the 17th century to today. As the French Huguenots, the Irish, the Jews and the Bangladeshis in turn enter the chaotic world of Bethnal Green, each new influx provokes a surge of violent protest over housing, jobs, religion and culture. And the emerging pattern shows that white flight and anxiety over integration is anything but new. Written with scurrilous bravura, Richard Bean’s great sweep of a comedy follows a pair of star-crossed lovers amid cutters’mobs, Papists, Jewish anarchists and radical Islamists across four tempestuous centuries. England People Very Nice enjoyed a sell-out run at the National Theatre.
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A riotous journey through four waves of immigration from the seventeenth century to today.
"A very funny but outrageous comedy…makes you laugh then wonder whether you should have." - Financial Times
A riotous journey through four waves of immigration from the seventeenth century to today.
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781840029000
Publisert
2009-02-01
Utgiver
Vendor
Oberon Modern Plays
Høyde
210 mm
Bredde
130 mm
Dybde
5 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
128
Forfatter