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Blindsided

Simon Stephens author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:23rd Jan '14

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A surprising and romantic new play from Olivier award-winning playwright Simon Stephens.

We’re just the least lucky girls in all the world. All three of us. You and me and Ruthy have been given a big sad spoon of bad luck. A girl growing up in a battered part of Stockport in a battered time at the end of the Seventies falls in love with the man who will break her heart into a thousand pieces. Blindsided is a surprising and romantic play about warped love, jealousy, and damaged lives, spanning from the beginnings of the Thatcher Government in 1979 to the birth of New Labour in 1997. This edition features an introduction by Dr Jacqueline Bolton.

[Stephens] has emerged in this millennium as an outstanding playwright * Financial Times *
A brilliant writer of immense imagination with an acute observation of people's foibles * Independent *
fascinating * The Times *
Stephens serves up extreme, articulate characters who hold the interest * The Times *
The play opens with a scene of highly charged sexual chemistry that shows why Stephens is an award-winning writer. * Independent *
the dialogue has a rare quality of moment-by-moment intensity * Daily Telegraph *
a play that you feel in your bones . . . The writing is like a series of electric shocks. * Guardian *

ISBN: 9781472568717

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 127g

120 pages