Jack Maggs
Published on 7. November 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
104 pages
978-0-571-38947-6 (ISBN)
Description
You're a dead man if they find you.
Enigmatic ex-convict Jack Maggs returns from Australia to the murky streets of nineteenth-century London and embarks on a quest to find his 'son' Henry Phipps, who has mysteriously disappeared. Disguised as a footman, he joins the peculiar household of Phipps's neighbour, Percy Buckle, where he meets Tobias Oates, a young novelist and amateur mesmerist searching for inspiration. Striking a dangerous deal with Oates, Maggs becomes ensnared in a dazzling, distorted world of ambition, secrets and unexpected alliances.
Samuel Adamson's ingenious, wildly entertaining adaptation of Peter Carey's bestselling novel opened in November 2024, in a production by State Theatre Company South Australia.
Enigmatic ex-convict Jack Maggs returns from Australia to the murky streets of nineteenth-century London and embarks on a quest to find his 'son' Henry Phipps, who has mysteriously disappeared. Disguised as a footman, he joins the peculiar household of Phipps's neighbour, Percy Buckle, where he meets Tobias Oates, a young novelist and amateur mesmerist searching for inspiration. Striking a dangerous deal with Oates, Maggs becomes ensnared in a dazzling, distorted world of ambition, secrets and unexpected alliances.
Samuel Adamson's ingenious, wildly entertaining adaptation of Peter Carey's bestselling novel opened in November 2024, in a production by State Theatre Company South Australia.
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Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-571-38947-6 (9780571389476)
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Person
Samuel Adamson's plays include: The Ballad of Hattie and James and Wife (Kiln Theatre), All About My Mother (from Almodovar; Old Vic), Southwark Fair (National Theatre), Clocks and Whistles (Bush Theatre), and A Chain Play (Almeida Theatre). Adaptations include: Mrs Affleck, from Ibsen's Little Eyolf, (National Theatre), A Doll's House (Southwark Playhouse); Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard and Three Sisters; Schnitzler's Professor Bernhardi; and a musical based on George MacDonald's The Light Princess, with Tori Amos (National Theatre).