Fred & Madge (NHB Modern Plays)
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Fred & Madge (NHB Modern Plays)

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Fred & Madge (NHB Modern Plays)

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About This Book

Joe Orton's brilliantly inventive and staggeringly bold first play.

Fred and Madge are a normal couple. Or so we think until a director and an audience member start interrupting and reworking this play within a play.

Exhilaratingly subversive, the play includes the destruction of the Festival Hall, professional insulters intent on purging society with laughter and a dystopian England overgrown with marigolds. Full of biting satire and sardonic wit, it mingles astutely observed social realism with myth: Fred's job is to push boulders up a hill, and Madge's is to sieve water.

Written in 1959, Fred & Madge finally received its premiere in 2014 at the Hope Theatre, London.

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Publisher
Nick Hern Books
Year
2014
ISBN
9781780015033
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Drama
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Contents
  4. Original Production
  5. Joe Orton and Fred & Madge
  6. Characters
  7. Fred & Madge
  8. About the Author
  9. Copyright and Performing Rights Information