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Beached
Melissa Bubnic
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Description for Beached
Paperback. A darkly funny comedy about modern freak shows, love and cream buns. Loads of cream buns. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 0. Weight in Grams: 81.
Melissa Bubnic's Beached is a darkly funny comedy about modern freak shows, love and cream buns. Loads of cream buns.
Arty is the world's fattest teenager. At sixty-seven stone, he is a young man literally going nowhere.
All that is set to change when a reality TV crew moves in to ruthlessly document Arty's supposed transformation from bedridden walrus to trousered sophisticate.
But with the cameras rolling, something totally unexpected happens – Arty falls in love.
Beached had its British premiere at the Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury, in 2014 before transferring to Soho Theatre, London. It won ... Read more
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Publisher
Nick Hern Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848424654
SKU
V9781848424654
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About Melissa Bubnic
Melissa Bubnic is a writer for stage and screen. Her plays include Boys Will Be Boys (Headlong and Bush Theatre, Sydney Theatre Company); Beached (Marlowe Theatre and Soho Theatre, Melbourne Theatre Company, and Griffin Theatre Company; winner of the Patrick White Award, 2010); Mariage Blanc (Sydney Theatre Company) and Stop. Rewind. (Red Stitch Actors' Theatre, 2010, 2012).
Reviews for Beached
'Funny but thoughtful... a moving and sensitive exploration of extreme obesity'
The Stage
'Touching and sensitive... a satisfyingly chewy four-hander'
Evening Standard
'A very funny, recognisable and hugely entertaining play'
Daily Telegraph Australia
'A well-crafted play that gets to the heart of human weakness and exposes the vulnerable'
Sydney Arts Guide
The Stage
'Touching and sensitive... a satisfyingly chewy four-hander'
Evening Standard
'A very funny, recognisable and hugely entertaining play'
Daily Telegraph Australia
'A well-crafted play that gets to the heart of human weakness and exposes the vulnerable'
Sydney Arts Guide