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Hall Plays:1 Lee Hall

Hall Plays:1 By Lee Hall

Hall Plays:1 by Lee Hall


$17.49
Condition - Very Good
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Summary

A collection of 8 plays by British black comedy writer Lee Hall. It includes: Spoonface Steinberg, a play on faith, love and the meaning of life; Cooking with Elvis, the story of a family of an Elvis impersonator now tied to a wheelchair; and Bollocks!, an examination of lives ruined by war.

Hall Plays:1 Summary

Hall Plays:1: Cooking with Elvis;Spoonface Steinberg;Bollocks;Genie;Two's Company;I Love You; Jimmy Spud... by Lee Hall

The first collection of plays from one of Britain's finest young writers Spoonface Steinberg, Lee Hall's extraordinary, award-winning play about faith, love and the meaning of life was first broadcast on Radio Four in 1997 to unprecedented acclaim. It contains a good deal more truth than a thousand lectures on the nature of existence (Guardian). Cooking with Elvis is an Ortonesque black comedy about the family of a famous Elvis impersonator who is now tied to a wheelchair. Disgracefully entertaining (Daily Telegraph); So sharp it could cut itself as it piles on the humour (Guardian). Bollocks! is inspired by Ernst Toller's masterpiece Hinkemann. Re-located to Northern Ireland it is an examination of the impotence of lives ruined by war. Also included here are six previously unpublished radio and stage plays that prove Hall's talent as our pre-eminent contemporary writer of black comedy.

About Lee Hall

After his acclaimed play Spoonface Steinberg (1997), Lee Hall was appointed Writer in Residence at the RSC 1999/2000 under the Pearson Playwrights Scheme Award. Other plays include Cooking with Elvis (2000, Edinburgh Festival and West End) and an adaptation of Goldoni's The Servant with Two Masters (RSC 1999). He also wrote the screenplay to the film Billy Elliot (1999), receiving an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay. His most recent play, The Pitmen Painters premiered at the Live Theatre, Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 2007 before transferring to the National Theatre 2008.

Table of Contents

Cooking with Elvis;Spoonface Steinberg;Bollocks;Genie;Two's Company;I Love You; Jimmy Spud...

Additional information

GOR002548904
9780413771919
0413771911
Hall Plays:1: Cooking with Elvis;Spoonface Steinberg;Bollocks;Genie;Two's Company;I Love You; Jimmy Spud... by Lee Hall
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2002-05-09
311
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