Johnson Plays: 1

Three plays from the celebrated British author. 'Terry Johnson is that rare creature: a moralist with wit. He writes with responsible gaiety' Guardian

This collection of plays by Terry Johnson is part of the "Methuen Drama" series. Terry Johnson is the author of "Amabel", "Days Here So Dark", "Tuesday's Child", "Imagine Drowning", "Hysteria" and "Unfinished Business"."Terry Johnson is that rare creature: a moralist with wit. He writes with responsible gaiety" (Guardian) Insignificance: "at first glance it looks like a game of theatrical consequences. What if four icons of Ike's America - Marilyn Monroe, Albert Einstein, Joe DiMaggio and Senator McCarthy - met in a New York hotel room in 1953?...A piece that works on just about every level: the intellectual, the emotional, the playful...one of the landmark plays of the decade" (Guardian); Unsuitable for Adults "Set in the world of pub entertainment in Paddington - lunchtimes of striptease, evenings of the more violent kind of comic routine...it's a very funny play and very clever" (Sunday Times); Cries from the Mammal House: "Set in a small English private zoo and also in the bowels of anyone who has ever had to take responsibility for others...Freewheeling tough, lyrical and thrillingly unpredictable" (Sunday Times)