Chapel Street
Published on 2. December 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
62 pages
978-1-350-25868-6 (ISBN)
Description
You know sometimes when you're drinking, you feel a bit ill and you dread every swig, but you do it anyway because you want to get drunk?
He's been let down, belittled and ignored but tonight none of that matters - it's Friday and Joe is getting smashed. Kirsty has bought some vodka on the way home from school and is hastily shaving her legs with her friend's dad's razor. As bottles are drained and the sun sets the two hit the town, neither aware that soon their lives will irreconcilably collide.
Chapel Street is a rowdy, relentless two-hander about modern life and love on the dole. It is an acerbic yet compassionate portrait of good times gone bad for a betrayed generation.
He's been let down, belittled and ignored but tonight none of that matters - it's Friday and Joe is getting smashed. Kirsty has bought some vodka on the way home from school and is hastily shaving her legs with her friend's dad's razor. As bottles are drained and the sun sets the two hit the town, neither aware that soon their lives will irreconcilably collide.
Chapel Street is a rowdy, relentless two-hander about modern life and love on the dole. It is an acerbic yet compassionate portrait of good times gone bad for a betrayed generation.
Reviews / Votes
Lovely, sparky writing, shot through with humour... there's no doubting Barnes's raw talent. * Telegraph * Barnes' two-hander glitters with promise and pep. There's sharp-eyed humour to his picture of modern Britain and teenage life. * Independent *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Dimensions
Height: 196 mm
Width: 126 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
70 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-350-25868-6 (9781350258686)
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Luke Barnes in a northern England-born emerging playwright, both a unique and exciting wordsmith. His first play, Chapel Street , was selected as one of the top five new plays off the West End in 2011 by The Stage , and he was shortlisted for an OffWestEnd.com for most promising playwright.