Description
Millicent has been computerised. After a lifetime's work in the Obituary Department of the Morning Telegraph she has been made redundant. The firm, however, has allowed her to go out in style - she can write her last obit in her own hand with her own fountain pen. But whose last obit will it be? An obscure failure? A giant of history? A personal friend? An old lover? She plunders her memories, her fantasies and her long friendship with the daft and the dead before she makes her decision. Peter Tinniswood's black comedy won the Edinburgh Festival Fringe First Award in 1998. Production at the New End Theatre, Hampstead in May 2002
Millicent has been computerised. After a lifetime's work in the Obituary Department of the Morning Telegraph she has been made redundant. The firm, however, has allowed her to go out in style - she can write her last obit in her own hand with her own fountain pen. But whose last obit will it be? An obscure failure? A giant of history? A personal friend? An old lover? She plunders her memories, her fantasies and her long friendship with the daft and the dead before she makes her decision. Peter Tinniswood's black comedy won the Edinburgh Festival Fringe First Award in 1998.
About the Author
Peter Tinniswood (1936-2003) was an English scriptwriter, known for his comedy writing on radio and television. His translation of Eduardo de Filippo's Napoli Milionaria is published by Methuen Drama in De Filippo: Four Plays. Peter Tinniswood was born in Liverpool in December 1936. After leaving Manchester University he travelled and worked in Europe for a while until joining the Star in Sheffield in 1958. In the early sixties he wrote radio and TV satire until abandoning his full-time writing career. He wrote his first novel 'A Touch of Daniel' which was published in 1969. He has since written numerous novels, stage, television and radio plays.
Reviews
'Riveting and moving' The Stage
Book Information
ISBN 9781840023145
Author Peter Tinniswood
Format Paperback
Page Count 54
Imprint Oberon Books Ltd
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Millicent has been computerised. After a lifetime's work in the Obituary Department of the Morning Telegraph she has been made redundant. The firm, however, has allowed her to go out in style - she can write her last obit in her own hand with her own fountain pen. But whose last obit will it be? An obscure failure? A giant of history? A personal friend? An old lover? She plunders her memories, her fantasies and her long friendship with the daft and the dead before she makes her decision. Peter Tinniswood's black comedy won the Edinburgh Festival Fringe First Award in 1998.
About the Author
Peter Tinniswood (1936-2003) was an English scriptwriter, known for his comedy writing on radio and television. His translation of Eduardo de Filippo's Napoli Milionaria is published by Methuen Drama in De Filippo: Four Plays. Peter Tinniswood was born in Liverpool in December 1936. After leaving Manchester University he travelled and worked in Europe for a while until joining the Star in Sheffield in 1958. In the early sixties he wrote radio and TV satire until abandoning his full-time writing career. He wrote his first novel 'A Touch of Daniel' which was published in 1969. He has since written numerous novels, stage, television and radio plays.
Reviews
'Riveting and moving' The Stage
Book Information
ISBN 9781840023145
Author Peter Tinniswood
Format Paperback
Page Count 54
Imprint Oberon Books Ltd
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
