Modern Plays
Kirjailija:
E-kirja, 2013
englanti
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The world was cruel to Simeon Duff
Mad and mired in the deepest slough
Nobody seemed to give a stuff
''bout Simeon, Simeon Duff
Simeon Duff is working class, unemployed and desperate. His wife works. He''s lost all self-esteem. He''s on the scrap heap and wants to end it all . . . and so begins this brilliantly insane comedy about a man on the edge.
When word gets out that Duff is going to top himself, a host of ne''er-do-wells crawl out of the woodwork, each wanting to claim his grand gesture for their ''noble cause''. Let''s face it, why waste a death? But which cause shall it be . . . love, politics, religion, or the rising price of fish?
Will the disillusioned Duff go through with it? Will he really top himself for a dubious cause? Is he worth it?
An adaptation of Nikolai Erdman''s The Suicide (1928), The Grand Gesture is a witty satire of lobbyists seeking political control.
Mad and mired in the deepest slough
Nobody seemed to give a stuff
''bout Simeon, Simeon Duff
Simeon Duff is working class, unemployed and desperate. His wife works. He''s lost all self-esteem. He''s on the scrap heap and wants to end it all . . . and so begins this brilliantly insane comedy about a man on the edge.
When word gets out that Duff is going to top himself, a host of ne''er-do-wells crawl out of the woodwork, each wanting to claim his grand gesture for their ''noble cause''. Let''s face it, why waste a death? But which cause shall it be . . . love, politics, religion, or the rising price of fish?
Will the disillusioned Duff go through with it? Will he really top himself for a dubious cause? Is he worth it?
An adaptation of Nikolai Erdman''s The Suicide (1928), The Grand Gesture is a witty satire of lobbyists seeking political control.
- Kirjailija
- Deborah McAndrew
- ISBN
- 9781472526014
- Kieli
- englanti
- Julkaisupäivä
- 24.10.2013
- Kustantaja
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Sivumäärä
- 80
