Love, Lies and Taxidermy

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

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Beskrivning

An offbeat love story about Mr Tutti Frutti, a stuffed owl and the struggle to fit in.This is a boy-meets-girl story. Son of a Polish taxidermist meets daughter of a failing ice-cream salesman at a medical-research facility in Merthyr Tydfil. First date in Tesco and things are going well.But it's difficult to fall in love when your parents need saving from themselves, their weird hobbies and the threat of a prison sentence.Alan Harris's play Love, Lies and Taxidermy was first produced by Paines Plough, Sherman Cymru and Theatr Clwyd in Paines Plough's pop-up theatre, Roundabout, at the 2016 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, before touring.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-08-04
Mått:129 x 198 x 13 mm
Vikt:116 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:NHB Modern Plays
Antal sidor:96
Förlag:Nick Hern Books
ISBN:9781848425897

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Alan Harris is a playwright and librettist. He won the Judges’ Award at the 2015 Bruntwood Prize for How My Light Is Spent. Other plays include: Love, Lies and Taxidermy (Paines Plough UK tour, 2016); The Opportunity of Efficiency (New National Theatre Tokyo/National Theatre Wales); The Magic Toyshop (Invisible Ink/Theatr Iolo); The Future for Beginners (liveartshow/Wales Millennium Centre); A Good Night Out in the Valleys (National Theatre Wales); Re-Set (Mess Up The Mess); Marsha (Capital Fringe, Washington DC); Cardboard Dad (Sherman Cymru); Miss Brown To You (Hijinx Theatre); Orange (Sgript Cymru); Come To Where I’m From (Paines Plough). He has also written for BBC Radio 4 and Radio 3.Libretti include: Marsha: A Girl Who Does Bad Things (liveartshow/Arcola Grimeborn Festival); The Hidden Valley (Birdsong Opera/Welsh National Opera/Tête à Tête Opera Festival); The Journey (Welsh National Opera); Rhinegold, Manga Sister (liveartshow/The Yard, London).

Recensioner i media

'Fits perfectly into Paines Plough's own distinctive brand of romcom… using wit, speed and countless asides to the audience, [it will leave] the average viewer in tears by the end, though whether of laughter, sadness or empathy might vary from person to person'