The Miracle Man - Maxwell, Douglas

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Auteur(s) : Maxwell, Douglas

Editeur : Bloomsbury Academic

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/05/2011

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 100

Expédition : 136

Dimensions : 20.8 x 12.7 x 0.8

ISBN : 9781849430326

Résumé :

DOUGLAS MAXWELL is an award-winning Scottish playwright, whose plays have won awards including the Fringe First and the Stage Award for Ensemble Acting for Decky Does a Bronco which was also nominated for The Barclay Card Stage Award for Best Touring Production.

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Biographie:
Douglas Maxwell is one of the most popular and produced playwrights in Scotland. His other plays include Our Bad Magnet, If Destroyed True, Promises Promises and The Miracle Man. His Plays for Young People include Decky Does A Bronco, Helmet, Mancub and The Mother Ship. All are published by Oberon Books, now Methuen Drama....

Sommaire:
Holding on to your virginity, getting a ring for your pains and something to believe in, that's what Dawn, Rob and Fawziya want. Ozzy, their loser PE teacher needs to believe in something too. It will all be fine when the Miracle Man gets here. Won't it?
The characters are bright, fizzy and fast and on a journey heading for a great big unabashed, get-it-right-up-ye finale. This is a National Theatre of Scotland play which will be touring Scotland throughout Spring of 2010....

There's a huge, ambitious and seriously Scottish energy about The Miracle Man that is downright seductive --Joyce McMillan, The Scotsman ...no diminution in Maxwell's way with a funny one-liner. --Mark Fisher, The Guardian ...it's unceasingly hilarious...It's got real heart in place of sentimentality, humor where it might have chosen to preach, and an affection for and understanding of its characters... --David Pollock, The Independent