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Description for Passion Play
Paperback. A provocative comedy about sex, love and infidelity. This new edition of a modern classic and winner of the Evening Standard Award for Best Play is published alongside its much-anticipated return to the West End. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 132 x 9. Weight in Grams: 130.
A provocative comedy about sex, love and infidelity.
Comfortably married for 25 years, Eleanor's world is turned upside down when her husband begins an affair with their young friend Kate. As the lies mount up, the marriage is stripped bare, revealing illicit desires and hidden passions.
A potent mix of desire, intimacy and deception, this new edition of a modern classic and winner of the Evening Standard Award for Best Play was published alongside its return to the West End in 2013.
Peter Nichols's Passion Play was first staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Aldwych Theatre, ... Read more
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Publisher
Nick Hern Books
Number of pages
112
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
112
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848423190
SKU
V9781848423190
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-5
About Peter Nichols
Peter Nichols (1927-2019) was a British playwright whose best-known work includes A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, Privates on Parade and Passion Play. Collectively his plays won four Evening Standard Awards, a Society of West End Theatres Award for Best Comedy and two Ivor Novello Best Musical Awards. He also wrote for television, film and radio.
Reviews for Passion Play
'Packed with black humour and wrenching emotion... [an] ingenious modern classic'
Telegraph
'Raw and rasping... remarkable'
Whatsonstage.com
'Steps with cruel wit and cool elegance through the carnage of infidelity... zings, stings and draws blood'
The Arts Desk
'Hard, brilliant and painful... adult in the only true sense of the word'
Sunday Telegraph
... Read more
Telegraph
'Raw and rasping... remarkable'
Whatsonstage.com
'Steps with cruel wit and cool elegance through the carnage of infidelity... zings, stings and draws blood'
The Arts Desk
'Hard, brilliant and painful... adult in the only true sense of the word'
Sunday Telegraph
... Read more