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James Graham Plays: 2

This House; The Angry Brigade; The Vote; Monster Raving Loony

James Graham author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:23rd Sep '16

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The second collection of plays from eminent playwright James Graham, bringing together four of his critically acclaimed state-of-the-nation plays.

The second collection of plays from eminent playwright James Graham, bringing together four of his state-of-the-nation plays. The volume includes the following plays, alongside an introduction by the author: This House (2012) explores Westminster and the 1974 hung parliament through a combination of wit and waspish dialogue, comedy and political comment, and historical and contemporary concerns. The Angry Brigade (2014) takes a look at the story behind the Angry Brigade - a British anarchist group who carried out a series of bomb attacks between 1970 and 1972. The Vote (2015) looks at what happens in Britain on election night through the eyes of those at the polling station. Set in a fictional London polling station, Graham's play dramatises the final ninety minutes before the polls close in the 2015 general election. Monster Raving Loony (2016) explores the life and exploits of Screaming Lord Sutch to examine the state of the nation and Britain’s post-war identity crisis. It tells the story of Sutch through a cavalcade of comic characters from music hall to Monty Python, panto to Partridge.

James Graham has a knack for diving into our collective political memory and retrieving the absurd and the inexplicably forgotten . . . No emerging playwright can beat Graham at explaining political ideas on stage * The Times *
Could he be the next David Hare? * Observer *
Graham has a formidable track-record as a chronicler of modern history * Guardian *

ISBN: 9781350021570

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 371g

408 pages