A new American play to premiere at the Royal Court Theatre upstairs "Drugs, violence, real violence, life, life - we romanticise it - it is like - a drug - like - the trauma, the trauma of actually seeing this world is such that we create fantasies, we reward those who create fantasies because God forbid we look at - reality - at ourselves - there are people in this country, other people who are fascinating and troubled - and yet - where are they?" Christopher Shinn's Other People is set in New York among a twenty-something ...
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A new American play to premiere at the Royal Court Theatre upstairs "Drugs, violence, real violence, life, life - we romanticise it - it is like - a drug - like - the trauma, the trauma of actually seeing this world is such that we create fantasies, we reward those who create fantasies because God forbid we look at - reality - at ourselves - there are people in this country, other people who are fascinating and troubled - and yet - where are they?" Christopher Shinn's Other People is set in New York among a twenty-something generation whose lives and hopes are blighted by disillusionment born of affluence and impotence in the face of the unknown. The play premiered at the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs in March 2000.
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First Paperback Edition. 8vo. Paperback. Signed by the author on the title page to Victor Ross (1920-2021) CEO of Readers Digest and a distinguished book collector, "with thanks, Christopher 21 st March 2000." Stephen, a struggling playwright and web-site movie critic, invites his ex-boyfriend Mark to spend Christmas with him and his roommate Petra, a poet and stripper. ISBN: 0413752208 Pages: 80 About fine.
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Good. THE SCRIPT! You will receive THE ACTING EDITION SCRIPT. Some shelf wear to the covers. Some edgewear to the covers a few pages have their corners folded. This is the ACTING EDITION SCRIPT!