Levy Plays: 1: Pax; Clam; The B File; Pushing the Prince into Denmark; Macbeth False Memory; Honey Baby

by Deborah Levy

Overview

The first collection of plays by one of Britain's leading writers



Pax: 'Pioneering writing which unlocks the colours of the imagination and subverts the structure, style and content of our new drama' City Limits; Clam: 'A budding genius' City Limits; The B File: 'An ironic, funny, lonely and challenging survey into the loss of cultural identity among young adult females in post modernist Europe' (Guardian); Pushing the Prince into Denmark is a surreal duet in a snowstorm between an angry Ophelia and a wilfully ignorant Gertrude.; Honey, Baby: 'Levy understands the underbelly, the wild, strange and the emotional' Melbourbane Age; Macbeth - False Memories: 'It has a spine tingling force' (Independent)Deborah Levy "does not deal with realism, she does not deal with magic realism, rather she draws out a new territory, and if we follow we will find ourselves suspended over views we have not seen before" Jeanette Winterson, Observer

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780413754905
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	11/09/2000
Series:	Contemporary Dramatists
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.44(d)

About the Author

Deborah Levy writes fiction, plays, and poetry. Her work has been staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company, broadcast on the BBC, and widely translated. She is the author of several highly praised novels, including The Man Who Saw Everything (long-listed for the Booker Prize), Hot Milk and Swimming Home (both Man Booker Prize finalists), The Unloved, and Billy and Girl; the acclaimed story collection Black Vodka; and a three-part autobiography, Things I Don’t Want to Know, The Cost of Living, and Real Estate. She lives in London and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Table of Contents

Pax; Clam; The B File; Pushing the Prince into Denmark; Macbeth False Memory; Honey Baby