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Lee Hall Plays: 1: Cooking with Elvis/Bollocks/Spoonface Steinberg/I Love You, Jimmy Spud/Wittgenstein on Tyne/Genie/Two's Company/Children of the Rai

Lee Hall

The first collection of plays from one of Britain's finest young writers


Spoonface Steinberg, Lee Hall's extraordinary, award-winning play about faith, love and the meaning of life was first broadcast on Radio Four in 1997 to unprecedented acclaim. It "contains a good deal more truth than a thousand lectures on the nature of existence" (Guardian).

Cooking with Elvis is an Ortonesque black comedy about the family of a famous Elvis impersonator who is now tied to a wheelchair. "Disgracefully entertaining" (Daily Telegraph); "So sharp it could cut itself as it piles on the humour" (Guardian).

Bollocks! is inspired by Ernst Toller's masterpiece Hinkemann. Re-located to Northern Ireland it is an examination of the impotence of lives ruined by war.

Also included here are six previously unpublished radio and stage plays that prove Hall's talent as our pre-eminent contemporary writer of black comedy.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Methuen Drama
  • Publish Date: May 9th, 2002
  • Pages: 311
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 7.88in - 5.20in - 0.81in - 0.49lb
  • EAN: 9780413771919
  • Categories: General

About the Author

Hall, Lee: - Lee Hall has won numerous awards, including a Sony award for his phenomenally popular radio play Spoonface Steinberg, which later transferred to the stage in a production with Kathryn Hunter. His play Cooking With Elvis had a sell-out run at the Whitehall Theatre throughout 2000, after his stint as Writer in Residence at the RSC. His adaptation of A Servant to Two Masters was a smash hit for the RSC and the Young Vic, and continues to tour worldwide. His two Brecht adaptations, Mr Puntilla and his Man Matti and Mother Courage and her Children were both sell-out successes in the West End. Lee Hall was Oscar nominated for his screenplay Billy Elliot.