Description
Two hopeful, hapless romantics get drunk, get it on, and then get the hell away from each other. In her eyes, he's a mistake. A mistake who keeps turning up at parties. In his eyes, she's perfect. He's short-sighted. This achingly funny, romantic catastrophe fuses poetry and prose to ask if a one-night stand last a lifetime. A very human tale of good intentions and bad timing. Winner of 2012 Fringe First (for innovation and outstanding new writing at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe), Dirty Great Love Story is a tale of the chance of love in a one-night stand. This second edition was published to coincide with the 2017 revival of the play and contains some changes to the original script.
Dirty Great Love Story is a funny, romantic story of catastrophe which fuses poetry and prose to ask if a one-night stand can last a lifetime.
About the Author
Richard Marsh is a playwright, lyricist and poet. Plays include Skittles, Nicked (Hightide) and Dirty Great Love Story (co-written with Katie Bonna), which won a Fringe First. Richard was one of the inaugural 503/5 writers-in-residence at Theatre503. Katie Bonna co-founded Red Handed Theatre Company and went on to become an Associate Artist for Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds, touring her one-woman play about the life of the lost voice of playwright Elizabeth Inchbald to America.
Reviews
Comic precision, heart and unflagging pace . . . Laughs are frequent, unsignalled and brilliant. * The Times *
Warmly and fuzzily recommended * Independent *
This is the kind of show that simultaneously restores your faith in human nature * Daily Telegraph *
Marsh and Bonna are masters of observational character comedy * Scotsman *
Thoroughly likeable two-hander about a one-night stand * Metro *
Almost addictively loveable * Time Out London *
A peppy and restorative rom-com full of mishaps and mayhem . . . [and] unassailable good-natured charm. * Evening Standard *
A . . . verbal buffet of wedding snogs, drunken clinches, awkward poshos, and uncharacteristically flamboyant declarations of love . . . it's great seeing a show grow from a poetry reading in a Balham pub to a teeny-tiny fringe space to the dirty great hall of a West End theatre, and these two klutz fill it adorably. * Time Out London *
A wry, funny, sweet-natured variation on the archetypal boy-meets-girl story . . . I believed totally in their stumbling, on-off relationship . . . The pleasure of the piece lies in the language . . . the ideal show for couples on an apprehensive first date. * Guardian *
I laughed out loud and so did everyone else . . . This is a feelgood romp-ette * The Times *
A good second-date show for young professionals. * Daily Mail *
This 2012 Edinburgh Fringe hit couldn't be cuter if the ushers handed out kittens . . . Any show that has people going "awwww" at regular intervals has hit its audience's sweet spot. * Sunday Times *
Oh boy, how we need this little heart-warmer now. * Jewish Chronicle *
Dirty Great Love Story is packed with unexpected rhymes and deft comic imagery . . . a feel-good show * Stage *
I'd lay money on this reaching the big screen. * Spectator *
Book Information
ISBN 9781350047211
Author Richard Marsh
Format Paperback
Page Count 64
Imprint Methuen Drama
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 64g
Dirty Great Love Story is a funny, romantic story of catastrophe which fuses poetry and prose to ask if a one-night stand can last a lifetime.
About the Author
Richard Marsh is a playwright, lyricist and poet. Plays include Skittles, Nicked (Hightide) and Dirty Great Love Story (co-written with Katie Bonna), which won a Fringe First. Richard was one of the inaugural 503/5 writers-in-residence at Theatre503. Katie Bonna co-founded Red Handed Theatre Company and went on to become an Associate Artist for Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds, touring her one-woman play about the life of the lost voice of playwright Elizabeth Inchbald to America.
Reviews
Comic precision, heart and unflagging pace . . . Laughs are frequent, unsignalled and brilliant. * The Times *
Warmly and fuzzily recommended * Independent *
This is the kind of show that simultaneously restores your faith in human nature * Daily Telegraph *
Marsh and Bonna are masters of observational character comedy * Scotsman *
Thoroughly likeable two-hander about a one-night stand * Metro *
Almost addictively loveable * Time Out London *
A peppy and restorative rom-com full of mishaps and mayhem . . . [and] unassailable good-natured charm. * Evening Standard *
A . . . verbal buffet of wedding snogs, drunken clinches, awkward poshos, and uncharacteristically flamboyant declarations of love . . . it's great seeing a show grow from a poetry reading in a Balham pub to a teeny-tiny fringe space to the dirty great hall of a West End theatre, and these two klutz fill it adorably. * Time Out London *
A wry, funny, sweet-natured variation on the archetypal boy-meets-girl story . . . I believed totally in their stumbling, on-off relationship . . . The pleasure of the piece lies in the language . . . the ideal show for couples on an apprehensive first date. * Guardian *
I laughed out loud and so did everyone else . . . This is a feelgood romp-ette * The Times *
A good second-date show for young professionals. * Daily Mail *
This 2012 Edinburgh Fringe hit couldn't be cuter if the ushers handed out kittens . . . Any show that has people going "awwww" at regular intervals has hit its audience's sweet spot. * Sunday Times *
Oh boy, how we need this little heart-warmer now. * Jewish Chronicle *
Dirty Great Love Story is packed with unexpected rhymes and deft comic imagery . . . a feel-good show * Stage *
I'd lay money on this reaching the big screen. * Spectator *
Book Information
ISBN 9781350047211
Author Richard Marsh
Format Paperback
Page Count 64
Imprint Methuen Drama
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 64g
