Fred & Madge (NHB Modern Plays)
Fiction & Literature, Drama, British & Irish, Nonfiction, Entertainment
| Author: | Joe Orton | ISBN: | 9781780015033 |
| Publisher: | Nick Hern Books | Publication: | September 18, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Nick Hern Books | Language: | English |
| Author: | Joe Orton |
| ISBN: | 9781780015033 |
| Publisher: | Nick Hern Books |
| Publication: | September 18, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Nick Hern Books |
| Language: | English |
Joe Orton's brilliantly inventive and staggeringly bold first play.
Fred and Madge are a normal couple. Or so we think until a director and an audience member start interrupting and reworking this play within a play.
Exhilaratingly subversive, the play includes the destruction of the Festival Hall, professional insulters intent on purging society with laughter and a dystopian England overgrown with marigolds. Full of biting satire and sardonic wit, it mingles astutely observed social realism with myth: Fred's job is to push boulders up a hill, and Madge's is to sieve water.
Written in 1959, Fred & Madge finally received its premiere in 2014 at the Hope Theatre, London.
Joe Orton's brilliantly inventive and staggeringly bold first play.
Fred and Madge are a normal couple. Or so we think until a director and an audience member start interrupting and reworking this play within a play.
Exhilaratingly subversive, the play includes the destruction of the Festival Hall, professional insulters intent on purging society with laughter and a dystopian England overgrown with marigolds. Full of biting satire and sardonic wit, it mingles astutely observed social realism with myth: Fred's job is to push boulders up a hill, and Madge's is to sieve water.
Written in 1959, Fred & Madge finally received its premiere in 2014 at the Hope Theatre, London.
