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Description for Slope
Paperback. An intimate and hedonistic examination of a nineteenth-century love triangle, slope explores the affair between the poets Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud, and its impact on Verlaine's young wife, Mathilde. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 198 x 5. Weight in Grams: 106.
An intimate and hedonistic examination of a nineteenth-century love triangle, pamela carter's play slope explores the affair between the poets Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud, and its impact on Verlaine's young wife, Mathilde.
Their verbal sparring is scabrous and hilarious, and their rollercoaster relationships as passionate and claustrophobic as they are cruel and ridiculous.
Originally produced in 2006 by Untitled Projects, slope returned in a new production by the company at the Glasgow Citizens and the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, in 2014.
Product Details
Publisher
Nick Hern Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
88
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848424593
SKU
V9781848424593
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Ref
99-5
About Pamela Carter
pamela carter is a playwright and dramaturg. Her plays include: Almost Near (Dresden Staatsshauspiel, Germany; Finborough Theatre, London); Skåne (Hampstead Theatre, London; Theater Ulm, Germany; winner of the New Writing Commission at the Berliner Festspiele Stückemarkt, 2012); What We Know (Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh; Teatro Circulo, New York); and several plays for Untitled Projects including slope, An Argument About Sex and ... Read more
Reviews for Slope
'A cruel battle for status, order duelling with chaos, decorum with sensual pleasure'
Guardian
'Exceptional… superb… breathtakingly successful'
Scotsman
Guardian
'Exceptional… superb… breathtakingly successful'
Scotsman