Description
We're just the least lucky girls in all the world. All three of us. You and me and Ruthy have been given a big sad spoon of bad luck.
A girl growing up in a battered part of Stockport in a battered time at the end of the Seventies falls in love with the man who will break her heart into a thousand pieces.
Blindsided is a surprising and romantic play about warped love, jealousy, and damaged lives, spanning from the beginnings of the Thatcher Government in 1979 to the birth of New Labour in 1997.
This edition features an introduction by Dr Jacqueline Bolton.
A surprising and romantic new play from Olivier award-winning playwright Simon Stephens.
About the Author
Simon Stephens has been the recipient of both the Pearson Award for Best New Play 2001-2 for his play Port, and the Olivier Award for Best New Play 2005 for On the Shore of the Wide World. His recent plays include Harper Regan (National Theatre), Punk Rock (Lyric Hammersmith/Royal Exchange, Manchester), Pornography (Traverse and Birmingham Rep), Wastwater (Royal Court and Wiener Festwochen), The Trial of Ubu (Hampstead Theatre), Three Kingdoms (Lyric Hammersmith), Morning (Lyric Hammersmith) and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (National Theatre/West End).
Reviews
[Stephens] has emerged in this millennium as an outstanding playwright * Financial Times *
A brilliant writer of immense imagination with an acute observation of people's foibles * Independent *
fascinating * The Times *
Stephens serves up extreme, articulate characters who hold the interest * The Times *
The play opens with a scene of highly charged sexual chemistry that shows why Stephens is an award-winning writer. * Independent *
the dialogue has a rare quality of moment-by-moment intensity * Daily Telegraph *
a play that you feel in your bones . . . The writing is like a series of electric shocks. * Guardian *
Book Information
ISBN 9781472568717
Author Simon Stephens
Format Paperback
Page Count 120
Imprint Methuen Drama
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 140g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 128mm * 10mm
