Deborah Mcandrew

The Grand Gesture (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 80
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472533845
• Artikelnr.: 39953196

Autorenporträt

Deborah McAndrew is a British writer and actor, whose adaptation of The Bells by Leopold Lewis (Northern Broadsides Theatre Company) opened at the Viaduct, Halifax in 2004. Her first original play Vacuum premiered with the same theatre company. Her version of Nikolai Gogol's A Government Inspector, with the action transplanted to a corrupt Yorkshire hamlet, is published by Methuen Drama.