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Description for Perfect Days
Paperback. A comedy about a celebrity hairdresser from Glasgow. Barbs Marshall is successful, well-off, and has her own TV show, but at 39 years of age, her biological clock is ticking. Things are looking bad, but then she meets a 26-year-old stranger who seems more than ready to oblige. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 6. Weight in Grams: 104.
A funny, sad and truthful romantic comedy about beating the biological clock.
Barbs Marshall is a celebrity hairdresser in Glasgow. She is successful and well off, but she is 39 years old and almost deafened by the ticking of her biological clock. To make matters worse, her mother is a nag, her best friend is holding out on her, and her ex-husband has a new 22-year-old girlfriend. Then she meets a 26-year-old stranger who seems more than ready to oblige. But the complications are by no means over...
Liz Lochhead's play Perfect Days was first performed in August ... Read more
The production was revived at Hampstead Theatre, London, in January 1999 and then transferred to the Vaudeville Theatre in the West End in June 1999.
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Publisher
Nick Hern Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781854594372
SKU
V9781854594372
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Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
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About Liz Lochhead
Liz Lochhead is a poet, playwright, performer and broadcaster. Her original stage plays include Thon Man Molière, Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off, Blood and Ice, Good Things and Perfect Days. Her many stage adaptations include Dracula, Molière’s Tartuffe, Miseryguts (based on Le Misanthrope) and Educating Agnes (based on L’École des Femmes); as well as versions ... Read more
Reviews for Perfect Days
'People seldom write life-style comedies like Perfect Days for the stage anymore. The last scene has jokes so marvellous that they are greeted by rounds of applause as one blinks back the odd tear'
Financial Times
'The mix of pithy patter and heartwrenching poignancy works a treat'
The Times
'A huge popular hit'
Daily Mail ... Read more
Financial Times
'The mix of pithy patter and heartwrenching poignancy works a treat'
The Times
'A huge popular hit'
Daily Mail ... Read more