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How My Light Is Spent
Alan Harris
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Description for How My Light Is Spent
Paperback. From the writer of Love, Lies and Taxidermy, How My Light Is Spent is a funny, hopeful play about loneliness, longing and being left behind. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Every Wednesday evening, Jimmy calls Kitty. For precisely nine minutes. At £1.20 a minute.
Jimmy is thirty-four, lives with his mum and works at Newport's only drive-through doughnut restaurant. Kitty is an adult chatline operator, living in the granny flat of a topiary enthusiast. Things were looking up for Jimmy, but then he loses his job and he begins to disappear, starting with his hands.
Will this unlikely duo succeed in turning each other's world upside down?
Alan Harris's play How My Light Is Spent is a funny, hopeful drama about loneliness, longing and being left behind. ... Read more
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Publisher
Nick Hern Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848426207
SKU
V9781848426207
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-5
About Alan Harris
Alan Harris is a playwright and librettist. His plays include: For All I Care (National Theatre of Wales, 2018); Sugar Baby (Dirty Protest, 2017); How My Light Is Spent (Royal Exchange, Manchester / Sherman Theatre / Theatre by the Lake, Keswick, 2017; winner of the Judges’ Award at the 2015 Bruntwood Prize); Love, Lies and Taxidermy (Paines Plough UK tour, ... Read more
Reviews for How My Light Is Spent
'Alan Harris's clever, poignant play reads like an epic poem, its urgent dialogue and scene-setting narration weaving seamlessly together, its simple language belying the play's depth of content... a subtle, compelling, and beautifully crafted work'
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'Alan Harris is an offbeat purveyor of big-hearted, small-town stories… a lyrical two-hander in which the malls and call centres ... Read more
The Reviews Hub
'Alan Harris is an offbeat purveyor of big-hearted, small-town stories… a lyrical two-hander in which the malls and call centres ... Read more