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Place at the Table, A

  • Simon Block
  • Full Length Play, Comedy, Contemporary
  • 2M, 2F
  • ISBN: 9781854594884

A play about the dog-eat-dog world of television.

  • Full Length Play
  • Comedy

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

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre
A play about the dog-eat-dog world of television.

Adam is a fringe dramatist plucked from obscurity by a script editor striving to make her mark in a small independent TV company. Because Adam happens to be in a wheelchair, Sarah proposes he writes the first ever TV sitcom about disability. He accepts the commission with predictably disastrous results.

Simon Block's play A Place at the Table was first staged at the Bush Theatre, London, in 2000.

REVIEWS:

"A blisteringly funny and angry new play."

 Sunday Times

"A comedy that hits its chosen target with a wounding, and wounded, accuracy."

 The Guardian

"Wickedly funny dialogue and a flagrant disregard for political correctness."

 Evening Standard

Premiere Production: Bush Theatre, London, 2000.
  • Casting: 2M, 2F

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A play about the dog-eat-dog world of television.

Adam is a fringe dramatist plucked from obscurity by a script editor striving to make her mark in a small independent TV company. Because Adam happens to be in a wheelchair, Sarah proposes he writes the first ever TV sitcom about disability. He accepts the commission with predictably disastrous results.

Simon Block's play A Place at the Table was first staged at the Bush Theatre, London, in 2000.

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