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Livings: Plays One: Eh?; The Finest Family in the Land; Honour &Offer; Stop It Whoever You Are; Don´t Touch Him He Might Resent It
Henry Livings
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Description for Livings: Plays One: Eh?; The Finest Family in the Land; Honour &Offer; Stop It Whoever You Are; Don´t Touch Him He Might Resent It
Paperback. In the 1960s, Henry Livings was celebrated for his eccentric and humorous depiction of northern working-class life. Known for the lightness of touch, his plays are peopled by so-called dimwits, crackpots and eccentrics who find themselves in often surreal situations. Includes: Eh?, The Ffinest Ffamily in the Land, Honour and Offer, Stop it Whoever Series: Oberon Modern Playwrights. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 506.
Livings was a one-off with a startlingly individual voice, an anarchic sense of humour and a fierce and loving commitment to his working-class anti-heroes. He was arguably the most audacious of his generation of playwrights, strongly influenced by his two years at Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop, where he acted in Brendan Behan's The Quare Fellow. Most of his plays are surreal farces set in ordinary places: a public lavatory in Stop It, Whoever You Are; a bolier room in Eh?; outside the door of a lift on the upper floor of a high-rise block of flats in The Ffinest Ffamily ... Read more
Livings was a one-off with a startlingly individual voice, an anarchic sense of humour and a fierce and loving commitment to his working-class anti-heroes. He was arguably the most audacious of his generation of playwrights, strongly influenced by his two years at Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop, where he acted in Brendan Behan's The Quare Fellow. Most of his plays are surreal farces set in ordinary places: a public lavatory in Stop It, Whoever You Are; a bolier room in Eh?; outside the door of a lift on the upper floor of a high-rise block of flats in The Ffinest Ffamily ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Series
Oberon Modern Playwrights
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781840020441
SKU
V9781840020441
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About Henry Livings
After two years at Liverpool University and a stint in the RAF, Henry Livings took to the boards. Provincial rep was followed by a formative period as an actor with Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop. His television work included a minor role in Coronation Street, still remembered by friends who call for the return of Our Lily's Wilf. He also ... Read more
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