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Parlour Song

  • Jez Butterworth
  • Full Length Play, Drama, Comedy, Contemporary
  • 2M, 1F
  • ISBN: 9781848420267

"It's a nice area. Young couples. Families. You've not got to drive far to see a cow.

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama, Comedy

  • Time Period: Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Flexible

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups
A blackly hilarious exploration of deceit, paranoia and murderous desire, as the spirit of the Blues lands in leafy suburbia.

Demolition expert Ned lives in a nice new house on a nice new estate on the edge of the English countryside. He loves his job. Barbecues. Car-boot sales. Fitness programmes. Outwardly his life is entirely unremarkable. Not unlike his friend and neighbour Dale.

So why has he not slept a wink in six months? Why is he so terrified of his attractive wife Joy? And why is it every time he leaves on business, something else goes missing from his home?

Jez Butterworth's play Parlour Song was first performed at the Atlantic Theater, New York, in Febraury 2008, before receiving its European premiere at the Almeida Theatre, London, in March 2009.
REVIEWS:

"Blissfully funny... combines the comic, the erotic and the downright disconcerting with superb panache."

 Telegraph

"Exactly captures the mundane madness beneath the bland routine of affluence."

 The Guardian

"Wickedly funny."

 Financial Times

Premiere Production: New York 2008; Almeida Theatre, London, 2009.

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  • Casting: 2M, 1F

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A blackly hilarious exploration of deceit, paranoia and murderous desire, as the spirit of the Blues lands in leafy suburbia.

Demolition expert Ned lives in a nice new house on a nice new estate on the edge of the English countryside. He loves his job. Barbecues. Car-boot sales. Fitness programmes. Outwardly his life is entirely unremarkable. Not unlike his friend and neighbour Dale.

So why has he not slept a wink in six months? Why is he so terrified of his attractive wife Joy? And why is it every time he leaves on business, something else goes missing from his home?

Jez Butterworth's play Parlour Song was first performed at the Atlantic Theater, New York, in Febraury 2008, before receiving its European premiere at the Almeida Theatre, London, in March 2009.

$24.95

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