Road
Published on 21. June 1990
Book
Paperback/Softback
96 pages
978-0-413-62390-4 (ISBN)
Description
Road: "A surreal vision of the contemporary urban landscape...uncomfortable and magical, funny and bitter. It is a northern Under Milk Wood, high on pills and booze" (Sunday Times).
Reviews / Votes
A surreal vision of the contemporary urban landscape...uncomfortable and magical, funny and bitter. It is a northern Under Milk Wood, high on pills and booze. * Sunday Times * Road is indeed an original, affecting, rumbustious and truly remarkable piece of work, let alone a superb first play * Financial Times * the writing [is] so immediate and entertaining too. As a first piece of work it [is] absolutely seminal. * Guardian *More details
Series
Edition
Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 124 mm
Thickness: 6 mm
Weight
88 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-413-62390-4 (9780413623904)
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Person
Jim Cartwright is an award-winning and internationally acclaimed playwright and screenwriter. His plays are consistently in production, have been translated into over 35 languages, and have been performed in most major theatres of the world, including the West End of London, Royal Court, National Theatre and Broadway. His theatre works include, amongst many others, Bed, Two, The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, Raz, and Mobile Phone Show. His extensive television and film work includes Road, Johnny Shakespeare, Vroom, Wedded, and King of the Teds.