"Why's the world so tough? It's like walking through meat in high heels."

A road, a wild night; a drunken guide, Scullery, conducts a tour of the derelict Lancashire road on which he lives. In this seminal play that gives expression to the road's poverty-stricken inhabitants, we are taken on a journey from the gutter to the stars and back.

This is published to coincide with the revival of Jim Cartwright's 1986 game-changing play to the Royal Court, London in June 2017.

Guided by Scullery, a resident of an unnamed road in eighties Britain, we get to meet the troubled inhabitants that populate his derelict street in Lancashire.

About the Author
Jim Cartwright is an award-winning and internationally acclaimed playwright and screenwriter. His plays are consistently in production, have been translated into over 35 languages, and have been performed in most major theatres of the world, including the West End of London, Royal Court, National Theatre and Broadway. His theatre works include, amongst many others, Road, Bed, Two, The Rise and Fall of Little Voice and King of the Teds.

Reviews
Uncomfortable and magical, funny and bitter. It is a northern Under Milk Wood, high on pills and booze * Sunday Times *
Road is indeed an original, affecting, rumbustious and truly remarkable piece of work * Financial Times *
The writing [is] so immediate and entertaining too. As a first piece of work [it] is absolutely seminal. * Guardian *
...Jim Cartwright's 1986 account of a community scarred by unemployment that couldn't be more relevant or rousing...**** -- The Guardian
Road is a hard, occasionally transcendent evening and also a gauntlet to modern playwrights...**** -- The Telegraph
...Cartwright's vivid language, with its ugly-beautiful poetry, its rage and compassion, still grabs you by the heart and throat and squeezes, hard. **** -- The Times
...its message comes at us with a vengeance. -- The Radio Times



Book Information
ISBN 9781350053816
Author Jim Cartwright
Format Paperback
Page Count 104
Imprint Methuen Drama
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 113g