peddling
Published on 9. April 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
64 pages
978-1-4725-8262-1 (ISBN)
Description
A boy wakes up in a field somewhere in London. He's a door-to-door salesman: a pedlar boy. An encounter with an old acquaintance sends him into a frenzied questioning of everything: his life, his world, where he's coming from and where he's going to.
peddling received its world premiere at Hightide Festival on 10 April 2014, performed by Harry Melling, before transferring to 59E59 Theatre, NY, for a four-week run.
peddling received its world premiere at Hightide Festival on 10 April 2014, performed by Harry Melling, before transferring to 59E59 Theatre, NY, for a four-week run.
Reviews / Votes
Takes us on a journey with a young offender door-to-door selling on a day release scheme. The hopping geography of the piece, in which the actor's feet seem to remember the dusty London streets, is a joy to watch. Leaping from place to place the boy's memories flow free, unlocking a true sense of self and eventually breaking the walls that bind him. -- Eve Stebbing * Telegraph * Feels like the intersection of Beckett and Albee . . . A powerful and delicately calibrated performance * New York Times (Critic's Choice) * Gutsy debut play by a first-class stage actor and an original new voice in British theater . . . a thrillingly raw performance * Exeunt *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Weight
75 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4725-8262-1 (9781472582621)
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Person
Harry Melling began his career at eleven-years-old appearing in the Harry Potter films playing Dudley Dursley. He subsequently went on to train at LAMDA and has since appeared in productions such as Mother Courage and her Children and Women Beware Women (both National Theatre), School For Scandal (Barbican/Holland Festival), When Did You Last See My Mother? (Trafalgar Studios), I Am A Camera (Southwark Playhouse), Smack Family Robinsons (Rose Theatre Kingston), and The Hothouse (Trafalgar Studios), King Lear at Chichester Festival/BAM, playing The Fool opposite Frank Langella's King Lear. Televison credits include Joe Mistry; Garrow's Law; Merlin; Just William and Friends and Crocodiles. Peddling is the first play that he's written.