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Road

"Uncomfortable and magical...funny and bitter. It is a northern Under Milk Wood, high on pills and booze."

The London Sunday Times

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama

Under the guidance of the rum-soaked wideboy Scullery, we are taken on an evening's tour of a scruffy, depressed road in a small Lancashire town. Moving from street corner to living room, from bedroom to kitchen, we meet the inhabitants of young, middle-aged, and old, glimpsing their socially and emotionally wretched lives, in this sharp, sad, funny, and angry play.

REVIEWS:

"Uncomfortable and magical...funny and bitter. It is a northern Under Milk Wood, high on pills and booze."

 The London Sunday Times

"The climax comes when two flash lads have picked up two girls...This sequence is simply one of the most unlikely, audacious and, in the event, riveting scenes to be found currently in the theatre."

 London Financial Times

Premiere Production: Road was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, London, on 22nd March, 1986, before transferring to the Royal Court's main auditorium on 9th June, 1986.
  • Casting:

  • SCULLERY
    BRENDA - Carol's mother
    BARRY
    LOUISE - a young girl
    LOUISE'S BROTHER
    CAROL - a young girl
    BRINK - a young man
    EDDIE'S DAD
    EDDIE - a young lad
    DOR - tarted-up woman
    LANE - tarted-up woman
    SKIN-LAD
    MOLLY - an old woman
    THE PROFESSOR
    CHANTAL - a young girl of about 16
    MR BALD
    MRS BALD
    JERRY - a middle-aged man
    BLOWPIPE
    CLAIRE - a young girl of about 16
    JOEY - a young lad of about 17
    BISTO
    TOM STANLEY - pub compere
    ELECTRIC CLUTCH - 3 dancers
    MANFRED - chip shop owner
    SCOTCH GIRL - his assistant
    CURT - a young lad
    HELEN - a middle-aged woman
    SOLDIER
    VALERIE - a woman in her mid-30s
    MARION - a drunk woman
    LINDA - a girl of about 12
    CHANCE PETERSON
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    Under the guidance of the rum-soaked wideboy Scullery, we are taken on an evening's tour of a scruffy, depressed road in a small Lancashire town. Moving from street corner to living room, from bedroom to kitchen, we meet the inhabitants of young, middle-aged, and old, glimpsing their socially and emotionally wretched lives, in this sharp, sad, funny, and angry play.

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