'... put your hands together for Sheffield's very own, born down the Eccy Road, in S11, he's in heaven, he's in the second round, he's in his own town, not wearing a dressing gown, he's the son of his folks, it's Dylan Spokes!'
Dylan isn't your typical snooker player. He's a vegetarian, for starters. This is the biggest week of his life and everybody wants a piece of him - his ex-con Dad, local gangster Waxy Chuff and the snooker corruption squad.
A world premire from Richard Bean, The Nap is a laugh out loud comedy thriller about love, honour and not getting snookered.
Autorentext
Richard Bean won the George Devine Award 2002, the Pearson Award for Best New Play 2002, the Critics' Circle Award for Best New Play 2005 & 2011, and the Evening Standard Award for Best Play 2011. Oberon Books publishes his Great Britain, Pitcairn, The English Game, Pub Quiz is Life, The Big Fellah, The God Botherers, Harvest, Mr England, Smack Family Robinson, Toast, The Mentalists, Under the Whaleback, England People Very Nice, In the Club, One Man, Two Guvnors and versions of David Mamet's House of Games, Molière's The Hypochondriac and Dion Boucicault's London Assurance.
Zusammenfassung
Dylan isn't your typical snooker player. He's a vegetarian, for starters. This is the biggest week of his life and everybody wants a piece of him his ex-con Dad, local gangster Waxy Chuff and the snooker corruption squad.The Nap is a laugh out loud comedy thriller about love, honour and not getting snookered. It centres around Dylan Spokes, a professional snooker player, born and raised in Sheffield. Dylan is preparing for a big match, but not only are his friends and family getting in the way, but he is visited by police investigating match fixing. The Nap is a farce by award-winning playwright, Richard Bean, with plenty of sharp lines, jokes and an array of hilarious characters. The play includes a live snooker match, with comic commentary. It opened at the Sheffield Crucible in 2016 and later on Broadway by the Manhattan Theatre Club.
Titel
The Nap
Autor
EAN
9781783197323
ISBN
978-1-78319-732-3
Format
E-Book (epub)
Hersteller
Herausgeber
Veröffentlichung
14.03.2016
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
Dateigrösse
0.7 MB
Anzahl Seiten
112
Jahr
2016
Untertitel
Englisch
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