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Description for Mongrel Island
Paperback. Mongrel Island is a dazzlingly powerful and dreamlike comic play where madcap surreal humour meets the mundanity of everyday office life. Series: Modern Plays. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 8. Weight in Grams: 120.
Marie is losing herself in her grey office existence, trapped by endless piles of paperwork and the same people saying the same things every single day. But as she is forced to work later and later into the night, she discovers a deeply strange twilight world where a new possibility for rescuing her sanity is illuminated by the fluorescent office lights. Commissioned by Soho Theatre and written by up-and-coming writer Ed Harris, Mongrel Island explores the mind and memory, offering a perspective of how the workplace can strip away our humanity. Combining madcap, surreal humour ... Read more
Marie is losing herself in her grey office existence, trapped by endless piles of paperwork and the same people saying the same things every single day. But as she is forced to work later and later into the night, she discovers a deeply strange twilight world where a new possibility for rescuing her sanity is illuminated by the fluorescent office lights. Commissioned by Soho Theatre and written by up-and-coming writer Ed Harris, Mongrel Island explores the mind and memory, offering a perspective of how the workplace can strip away our humanity. Combining madcap, surreal humour ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC London
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Series
Modern Plays
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408158708
SKU
V9781408158708
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-5
About Ed Harris
Ed Harris is a Brighton-based playwright and poet. His stage plays include Never Ever After (Chalkfoot Theatre Arts, shortlisted for the 2008 Meyer-Whitworth Award), Lucy (Academy of Creative Training/NYT) and The Cow Play (UK tour, Squaremoon/Farnham Maltings). For radio, Ed has written numerous critically-acclaimed plays for BBC Radio 4 in recent years, and he was shortlisted for the Tinniswood Award ... Read more
Reviews for Mongrel Island
A writer worth watching.
Ian Shuttleworth
Financial Times
In this tasty 90 minutes of wild humour tinged with quiet sadness there is a great deal to savour.
Lyn Gardner
Guardian
[Harris's] lines are sharp, his characters self-aware. This is a hugely promising piece of work.
Dominic Maxwell
The Times
In a ... Read more
Ian Shuttleworth
Financial Times
In this tasty 90 minutes of wild humour tinged with quiet sadness there is a great deal to savour.
Lyn Gardner
Guardian
[Harris's] lines are sharp, his characters self-aware. This is a hugely promising piece of work.
Dominic Maxwell
The Times
In a ... Read more