'Welcome Home', 'Raspberry' and 'The Lucky Ones' (Modern Plays) - Softcover

Tony Marchant

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0413538206 ISBN 13: 9780413538208

Publisher: Methuen Drama (UK), 2004

Synopsis

Welcome Home: a 'blistering, exhausting study of the reactions of a platoon of paras recently returned from the Falklands War, uncovers a gaping wound in our society's moral carapace and sets leeches, not balm, to the sores. Marchant creates a nerve-wracking world which always threatens to topple into nightmare, as one after another of the survivors crack, unable to rationalise and find meaning in their comrades' death.' Tribune

Raspberry: Intensely moving, an extraordinary achievement for a male writer.' Sunday Telegraph

The Lucky Ones: 'Riotously amusing and highly subversive... Tony Marchant comes of age with a vengeance. In a basement overflowing with boxes and files, four young clerks at a firm of stockbrokers, trapped in an endless round of mindless drudgery, reveal their true selves in a mounting spiral of vividly written arguments and escapades... Marchant's dazzling observations on the petty restrictions and humiliations imposed by employers on those at the bottom of the heap are steeped in acid.' Time Out

About this title

About the Author

Tony Marchant (b. London, 1959) won the 1982 London Critics' Theatre Award for Most Promising Playwright for The Lucky Ones and Raspberry (published in 1996 in a single volume, together with Welcome Home, by Methuen Drama). Since then he has been resident writer at the Royal National Theatre and has written for television.

Edition details

• Publisher: Methuen Drama (UK)
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0413538206
• ISBN 13: 9780413538208
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80