A Voyage Round My Father (Acting Edition S.) - Softcover

Mortimer, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0573014817 ISBN 13: 9780573014819

Publisher: Samuel French, 2015

Synopsis

There were days when the Father could see and days when the Father could not see in this tale seen through the eyes of the perennial Son as viewed from the trellis surrounded, as if for protection, by an enormous garden. The tale grows in turns and twists upon allusion and reversals, all crisply dramatic and really not so comical as at first glance.|7 women, 12 men

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Review:

This is a memory play, suffused by nostalgia, and also a clever evocation of another era... [but] more seethes beneath the surface than is initially apparent. Though unashamedly old-fashioned and sometimes sentimental, the play is emotionally delicate too, and often astute about dependency, the way our parents shape us and how hard it is to say 'I love you'. --Lyn Gardner, The Guardian

About the Author:

John Mortimer is a playwright, novelist, and former practicing barrister who has written many film scripts as well as stage, radio, and television plays, the Rumpole plays, for which he received the British Academy Writer of the Year Award, and the adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's "Brideshead Revisited." He is the author of twelve collections of Rumpole stories and three acclaimed volumes of autobiography.

About this edition

• Publisher: Samuel French
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0573014817
• ISBN 13: 9780573014819
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 62