The Pitchfork Disney
1st Edition
Published on 21. May 2015
128 pages
978-1-4725-1047-1 (ISBN)
Description
'Ridley's play, with its surreal fantasies, has an edgy, alarming potency of its own, the writing unfettered by any expectations of how a play should be.' - Guardian
Against a backdrop of post-apocalyptic dreams, blood-hungry dogs and labyrinthine nightmares, Presley and his twin sister, Haley, eat chocolate and tell each other stories in order to fend off their darkest fears. Everything will be okay as long as they stay together, inside. But then, one night, Presley sees a beautiful stranger through the window - 18-year-old Cosmo Disney - and, while Haley sleeps, unbolts the front door and lets him in.
First produced in 1991, The Pitchfork Disney heralded the arrival of a unique and disturbing voice that single-handedly changed the face of British drama. Vivid and visionary, Philip Ridley's unsettling and dreamlike play offers a prophetic exploration of fear, sexual paranoia, and living in 'alternative worlds'.
Published in Methuen Drama's Modern Classics series, Ridley's breakthrough work is introduced by Aleks Sierz (author of In-Yer-Face Theatre).
Against a backdrop of post-apocalyptic dreams, blood-hungry dogs and labyrinthine nightmares, Presley and his twin sister, Haley, eat chocolate and tell each other stories in order to fend off their darkest fears. Everything will be okay as long as they stay together, inside. But then, one night, Presley sees a beautiful stranger through the window - 18-year-old Cosmo Disney - and, while Haley sleeps, unbolts the front door and lets him in.
First produced in 1991, The Pitchfork Disney heralded the arrival of a unique and disturbing voice that single-handedly changed the face of British drama. Vivid and visionary, Philip Ridley's unsettling and dreamlike play offers a prophetic exploration of fear, sexual paranoia, and living in 'alternative worlds'.
Published in Methuen Drama's Modern Classics series, Ridley's breakthrough work is introduced by Aleks Sierz (author of In-Yer-Face Theatre).
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-4725-1047-1 (9781472510471)
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Philip Ridley is a contemporary artist, poet, novelist, film-maker and one of the country's most celebrated living playwrights. Ridley has been described as 'probably a genius' (Time Out) and 'the best British playwright of the last 20 years' (Aleks Sierz, author of In-Yer-Face Theatre). His plays include Ghost From A Perfect Place, Mercury Fur, The Fastest Clock in the Universe, and Vincent River.
