Mouth to Mouth (NHB Modern Plays) - Softcover

Elyot, Kevin

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9781854596178: Mouth to Mouth (NHB Modern Plays)

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ISBN 10: 1854596179 ISBN 13: 9781854596178

Publisher: Nick Hern Books, 2001

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Frank is a forty-something failed writer. He is in the grips of an undeclared passion for his best friend's 17-year-old son, whom he has saved from drowning with mouth to mouth resuscitation. After Frank makes a bungled attempt to confess his feelings, the boy is killed in a motorbike accident. Yet all of this in buried in a social comedy in the hands of Elyot, a past master at employing the grim reaper to sharpen his hilarity.

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Synopsis:

Frank is a 40-ish failed writer. He is in the grips of an undeclared passion for his best friends' 17 year old son, whom he has saved from drowning with mouth to mouth resuscitation. After Frank makes an attempt to confess his feelings, the boy steals a motorbike, crashes and is killed.

About the Author:

Kevin Elyot won the Samuel Beckett Award for his first play, Coming Clean (1982). My Night With Reg (1994) was hailed as "a play of genius" by the Daily Mail, won the Evening Standard and Laurence Olivier Awards for Best Comedy and ran for ten months in the West End.

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