Crocodiles (NHB Modern Plays) - Softcover

Lee Mattinson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1848424434 ISBN 13: 9781848424432

Publisher: Nick Hern Books, 2014

Synopsis

In a sleepy seaside town, Cornelia Glass is busy spinning yarn. Witches are burnt in the town centre. Crocodiles lurk in the shallows. Boys who go to the big city are skinned alive by roving tramps.

Cornelia's oldest son, Rudolph, is being forced to give up his Punch and Judy show. Matilda, his wife, is secretly writing her first romantic novel. Their daughter, Lucy, can tell the future. But when Cornelia's younger son, Vincent, returns from his glitzy television job in the big city, the stories that once held the Glass family together are in danger of smashing them to smithereens.

Crocodiles brings to life a dystopian, modern-fairytale town where fact and fiction weave as tightly and snag as easily as Cornelia's knitting. It was runner-up for the 2011 Verity Bargate Award, and premiered at the Royal Exchange, Manchester, in 2014.

About this title

Review:

'dark, funny and off the wall' - WhatsOnStage

About the Author:

Lee Mattinson's other plays include Chalet Lines (Bush Theatre, London, and Live Theatre, Newcastle) and Donna Disco (Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Live Theatre).

About this edition

• Publisher: Nick Hern Books
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1848424434
• ISBN 13: 9781848424432
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96