Reseña del editor:
The latest collection of plays from "the female counterpart to Quentin Crisp" (Evening Standard) The Year of the Monkey, originally written for BBC Radio 3, comprises Bonfire Night, in which a daughter takes her sweet revenge; Arsehammers, where a grandson is sure that his grandfather's strange disappearances reveal supernatural powers, The Allotment, in which a quiet community of pensioners create a radical, anarchic commune by mistake, and The Year of the Monkey, where a mother yearns for some bad behaviour to puncture the boredom of her middle-class life.Designs for Living is a modern love story, challenging conventions of identity and sexuality.Sodom reveals Old Testament morality alive and well in middle England."Claire Dowie is the supreme advocate of rebellion. She debunks conformity, non-conformity - or almost anything which can be defined" - The Stage"She makes you laugh as she kicks you in the teeth" - Guardian
Biografía del autor:
Claire Dowie is a writer/performer/poet/comedian, and pioneer of 'stand-up theatre'. After starting out on the 'alternative' comedy circuit, she switched to stand-up comedy and to writing plays 'when the punchlines ran out'. Her first, Cat and Mouse, was performed in 1987, followed by Adult Child/De ad Child, which won a Time Out Award. Other works include Came Out, It Rained, Went Back In Again fo r BBC2's City Shorts season, and Kevin for Central Children's Television.
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