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Overview""I walked in and she's sat in the coffin. In the middle of the living-room floor and she's - she's watching telly and laughing"" Nobody can ignore the fact that Myra is dying but in the meantime life goes on. There are boilers to be fixed, cats to be fed and the perfect funeral to be planned. As a mother researches burial spots and bio-degradable coffins, her family are finally forced to communicate with her, and each other, as they face up to an unpredictable future. Laura Wade's beautifully poised family drama was first performed at Soho Theatre, London. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Laura Wade (Author)Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: Methuen Drama Weight: 0.092kg ISBN: 9781350320208ISBN 10: 135032020 Pages: 96 Publication Date: 10 March 2022 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviewsLaura Wade's play is a 90-minute masterpiece, a jewel, dark but translucent. It is a play of love, death and grief: the grief that is hardest to bear, because it begins before the loved one dies. FIVE STARS * Sunday Times * Wade's original and beautifully observed play balances raw emotion with a deliciously delicate black humour. * The Stage * Author InformationLaura Wade’s plays include Posh (Royal Court Theatre and West End); Tipping The Velvet (Lyric Hammersmith); Alice (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield); Kreutzer vs. Kreutzer (Globe Theatre, Sydney Opera House and Australian tour); Other Hands (Soho Theatre); Colder Than Here (Soho Theatre and MCC Theatre New York); Breathing Corpses (Royal Court Theatre); Catch (Royal Court Theatre, written with four other playwrights); Young Emma (Finborough Theatre); 16 Winters (Bristol Old Vic Basement) and Limbo (Crucible Studio Theatre, Sheffield). Films include The Riot Club. Awards include the Critics’ Circle Award for Most Promising Playwright, the Pearson Best Play Award and the George Devine Award. Laura Wade’s plays have been performed in the UK, USA, Australia, Ireland, Sweden, Norway, Germany, the Netherlands and Mexico. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |