Road
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published:4th Aug '17
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
Guided by Scullery, a resident of an unnamed road in eighties Britain, we get to meet the troubled inhabitants that populate his derelict street in Lancashire.
“Why’s the world so tough? It’s like walking through meat in high heels.” A road, a wild night; a drunken guide, Scullery, conducts a tour of the derelict Lancashire road on which he lives. In this seminal play that gives expression to the road's poverty-stricken inhabitants, we are taken on a journey from the gutter to the stars and back. This is published to coincide with the revival of Jim Cartwright’s 1986 game-changing play to the Royal Court, London in June 2017.
Uncomfortable and magical, funny and bitter. It is a northern Under Milk Wood, high on pills and booze * Sunday Times *
Road is indeed an original, affecting, rumbustious and truly remarkable piece of work * Financial Times *
The writing [is] so immediate and entertaining too. As a first piece of work [it] is absolutely seminal. * Guardian *
...Jim Cartwright's 1986 account of a community scarred by unemployment that couldn't be more relevant or rousing...**** -- The Guardian
Road is a hard, occasionally transcendent evening and also a gauntlet to modern playwrights...**** -- The Telegraph
...Cartwright's vivid language, with its ugly-beautiful poetry, its rage and compassion, still grabs you by the heart and throat and squeezes, hard. **** -- The Times
...its message comes at us with a vengeance. -- The Radio Times
ISBN: 9781350053816
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 113g
104 pages