Great Britain
- Full Length Play, Drama, Comedy, Contemporary
- 17M, 8F
- ISBN: 9780573115073
Richard Bean's fast and furious new play in an anarchic and foul-mouthed satire about the press, the police and the political establishment.
Description
- Full Length Play
- Drama, Comedy
- Time Period: Contemporary
But when Paige starts living as a self described "super hero with special powers," after discovering the benefits of illegal phone tapping, she risks putting herself and the many people around her into murky, morally dubious and dangerous territory.
This large-scale ensemble comedy successfully lampoons the recent past, making current events a timeless source of satire.
REVIEWS:
"Astounding. The most detailed stage satire I have ever seen."
Financial Times
"Blessedly funny. Bracing topicality. Richard Bean doesn't do things by halves."
The Guardian
"Laughter-making on an industrial scale. The NT is on exhilarating and exemplary form."
The Independent
"It's a loud, rambunctious, fast-moving and foul-mouthed entertainment packed with lurid characters and vulgar jokes. And if one joke doesn't work, another will be along two seconds later. Never has corruption been this funny."
The Telegraph
Characters
- Casting: 17M, 8F
- Casting Attributes: Reduced casting (Doubling Possible)
Paige - late 20s or early 30s, journalist
Garth - 40s, O'Leary business executive
Wilson - late 50s, Editor
Jackie - 30s, ex page 7 girl, now picture editor
Tina - 20s, celebrity desk
Larry - 50s, crime desk
Wallace - tv column, How's Big Your Telly!
Maddy - 40s, royal correspondent
Marcus - 30s, investigative reporter (Black British)
Gemma - 30s, foreign desk
Howard - 50s, senior journalist
Billy Kayne - The Legend, 68, sports desk
Paschal O'Leary - 60s, owner
Boris Tudor - 70s
Clarissa Kingston-Mills - 60s
Stella Stone - 20s, celebrity
Wendy Klinkard - 30s, in a wheelchair
Police Doyle Davidson - 30s
Mac MacManaman - 50s
Suliman (Sully) Kassam - 40s, of Pakistani ethnicity
DI Cram - 30s
Jonathan Whey - 40s
St. John - 30s
Diane Bendall - 40s
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Paige Britain is the ambitious, morally-bankrupt young news editor of The Free Press, a tabloid newspaper locked in a never-ending battle for more readers. |
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