Fred & Madge
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Nick Hern Books
Published:18th Sep '14
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
Joe Orton's brilliantly inventive and staggeringly bold first play.
Fred and Madge are a normal couple. Or so we think until a director and an audience member start interrupting and reworking this play within a play.
Exhilaratingly subversive, the play includes the destruction of the Festival Hall, professional insulters intent on purging society with laughter and a dystopian England overgrown with marigolds. Full of biting satire and sardonic wit, it mingles astutely observed social realism with myth: Fred's job is to push boulders up a hill, and Madge's is to sieve water.
Written in 1959, Fred & Madge finally received its premiere in 2014 at the Hope Theatre, London.
'A brilliantly bizarre satire... you see all of Orton's wild genius developing minute by minute'
* The StaISBN: 9781848424548
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104 pages