Can I Help You?
1st Edition
Published on 3. March 2020
72 pages
978-1-78682-850-7 (ISBN)
Description
One night, an off-duty police officer and a woman carrying a cat box meet on Beachy Head. Two disparate souls collide, and learn what it truly means to be touched by the magic of hope.
Philip Osment's final play, Can I Help You? is a magical realist examination of the role race and gender have to play in mental health and suicide.
Philip Osment's final play, Can I Help You? is a magical realist examination of the role race and gender have to play in mental health and suicide.
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Its impact on the audience was startling and, for me, it was a most convincing theatrical representation of life in prison * Sir Ian McKellen on INSIDE *More details
Series
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1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
978-1-78682-850-7 (9781786828507)
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Philip Osment was an actor, director, and writer. He acted with several alternative theatre companies, including The Half Moon, Shared Experience and Gay Sweatshop (who performed his first scripts), before going on to become a prolific playwright. His breakthrough play was This Island's Mine, and several of his other works were nominated for Writer's Guild Awards, with Whole winning Best Play for Young People in 2013.
