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Michael Abbensetts: Four Plays: Sweet Talk; Alterations; In the Mood; El Dorado
Michael Abbensetts
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Description for Michael Abbensetts: Four Plays: Sweet Talk; Alterations; In the Mood; El Dorado
Paperback. Features the plays Sweet talk, Alterations, In the Mood and El Dorado Michael Abbensetts is the writer who gave Caribbeans a real voice in Britain. Series: Oberon Modern Playwrights. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 340.
Sweet talk is a witty, energetic and finally moving account of a marriage in crisis. Alterations is a comedy set in a tailor's shop, inspired by a real visit to a small room off Carnaby Street where two black tailors had set up shop with just two sewing machines and an ironing board. In the Mood focuses on two Caribbean Second World War veterans, whose nostalgic Remembrance Sunday lunch is disrupted by a visit from their frivolour and irritating friend, in search of a loan and as many free drinks as he can get his hands on. El Dorado turns its attention to a mixed-race, middle class family interred in their formerly grand but now dilapidated house. A grandson returns home to lay some ghosts to bed, and gains an alarming insight into the truths of home life.
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Series
Oberon Modern Playwrights
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781840021790
SKU
V9781840021790
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About Michael Abbensetts
Michael Abbensetts was born in Guyana and spent some of his childhood in Canada. He has written many plays for stage, television and radio, as well as the two television series Empire Road and Little Napoleons. He was winner of the George Devine Award, Resident Dramatist at the Royal Court Theatre in 1974 and Visiting Professor of Drama at Carnegie-Mellon University, USA, in 1981/82. He is currently Writer in Residence at the University of North London.
Reviews for Michael Abbensetts: Four Plays: Sweet Talk; Alterations; In the Mood; El Dorado
"The majority of black British playwrights emerged in the 1970s. Michael Abbensetts in quite simply the best of these." - P.S. Guptara, Contemporary Dramatists