Happy Now?
Will be published approx. on 17. January 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
112 pages
978-1-85459-560-7 (ISBN)
Description
A painfully truthful, darkly comic take on contemporary life and how to survive it.
A chance encounter at a conference hotel plays upon Kitty's mind as she struggles to balance personal freedom with family life, fidelity and a testing job. Her husband seems more interested in misplaced apostrophes than his marriage, her parents are looking down the barrel of oblivion and, although she might toy with joining a gym, Kitty's running out of time for big changes.
Lucinda Coxon's play Happy Now? was first staged at the National Theatre, London, in 2008.
A chance encounter at a conference hotel plays upon Kitty's mind as she struggles to balance personal freedom with family life, fidelity and a testing job. Her husband seems more interested in misplaced apostrophes than his marriage, her parents are looking down the barrel of oblivion and, although she might toy with joining a gym, Kitty's running out of time for big changes.
Lucinda Coxon's play Happy Now? was first staged at the National Theatre, London, in 2008.
Reviews / Votes
'The best new play to have arrived on a British stage for at least a year... unsparing observation, baleful humour and underlying compassion... a richly rewarding gem of a play' * Telegraph * 'Wonderfully funny and painfully accurate... hits nail after nail on the head' * Independent * 'Everything about the play rings with a horrible truth, and the writing is consistently funny and flecked with pain' * Whatsonstage.com *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 193 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
113 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85459-560-7 (9781854595607)
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Lucinda Coxon is an English playwright and screenwriter.
Her plays include: a version of Ibsen's John Gabriel Borkman (Bridge Theatre, London, 2022); Alys, Always, adapted from the novel by Harriet Lane (Bridge Theatre, London, 2019); Herding Cats (Ustinov Theatre, Bath, 2010, & Hampstead Theatre, 2011); and Happy Now? (National Theatre, 2008).
Her screenplays include The Danish Girl, The Crimson Petal and the White and The Little Stranger.
Her plays include: a version of Ibsen's John Gabriel Borkman (Bridge Theatre, London, 2022); Alys, Always, adapted from the novel by Harriet Lane (Bridge Theatre, London, 2019); Herding Cats (Ustinov Theatre, Bath, 2010, & Hampstead Theatre, 2011); and Happy Now? (National Theatre, 2008).
Her screenplays include The Danish Girl, The Crimson Petal and the White and The Little Stranger.