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Live Theatre: Six Plays from the North East

Filletting Machine; My Heart's Delight; Shooting the Legend; Wittengenstein on Tyne; Laughter; Cold

Sean O'Brien author Lee Hall author Julia Darling author Alan Plater author Tom Hadaway author C P Taylor author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:4th Dec '03

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Live Theatre: Six Plays from the North East cover

The filleting machine; You are my heart's delight; Shooting the legend; Wittgenstein on Tyne; Laughter when we're dead; Cold calling. These six titles make up Live Theatre, a celebration of the finest playwrights from the North East, spanning three generations.

Published to tie in with the legendary Live Theatre's thirtieth birthday celebrations Spanning three generations, Live Theatre is a celebration of the finest playwrights from the North East. In The Filleting Machine (Tom Hadaway), a fishing family's way of life faces extinction; in You Are My Heart's Delight (C.P. Taylor), the lights are switched out in the house of a gamekeeper and his sister who have resisted change for years; Shooting the Legend (Alan Plater) is a comedy of cultural errors in which two women prepare to make a documentary about the 'socially deprived' of Gateshead; in Wittgenstein on Tyne (Lee Hall), Wittgenstein is caught red-handed when working as a hospital porter on Tyneside; Laughter When We're Dead (Sean O'Brien) is a modern revenge tragedy set around the politics of old versus new labour while Cold Calling (Julia Darling) is a dark comedy about a door-to-door salesman.

ISBN: 9780413774095

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 19mm

Weight: 300g

304 pages