The Wolf From The Door
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published:10th Sep '14
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
Lady Catherine and her protégé Leo set out on a wild road trip across Middle England in this play from one of the most astonishing young writers in Britain.
We don’t actually drink coffee at my coffee morning. – What do you do, then? – We discuss the violent overthrow of the government. Also, there’s flower arranging. In this intensely imaginative and daringly brave-thinking play, award-winning playwright Rory Mullarkey imagines a wild road trip across Middle England. Together, Lady Catherine and her young protégé Leo enlist every tearoom, hot yoga class and Women's Institute group on a mission to change the country forever. This play was the 2014 Pinter Commission and the winner of the George Devine Award. It received its world premiere production at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs on 10 September 2014, starring Anna Chancellor as Lady Catherine and directed by James Macdonald.
Mullarkey has fun with the juxtaposition of quaint English custom and unadulterated savagery, and he offers some hilarious dialogue. . . . Mullarkey has considerable talent . . . exhilarating * Daily Telegraph *
fervent and bracingly original . . . laced with exuberant absurdity and moments of twisted humour . . . there’s a fierce freshness in his writing that suggests he’s a young playwright to watch. * Evening Standard *
rallying, angry and necessary * The Stage *
Rory Mullarkey's free-spirited daub of a nationwide road trip is a Poliakoff-style fantasia of violence and revolution . . . He's a promising new talent. * Whatsonstage *
Funny, provocative and engagingly eccentric * Time Out *
Mullarkey certainly has an original voice * Financial Times *
ISBN: 9781474221924
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 64g
64 pages