Mrs. Klein

by Nicholas Wright

Overview

The first major revival of a 1988 West End and Broadway hit about the controversial child psychoanalyst Melanie Klein.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781848420663
Publisher:	Theatre Communications Group
Publication date:	11/09/2010
Edition description:	Third Edition
Pages:	64
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.60(h) x 0.20(d)

About the Author

Nicholas Wright’s most recent work has been for the National Theatre: The Reporter in 2007, and his phenomenally successful adaptation of His Dark Materials (2003). His Vincent in Brixton won rave reviews and the Olivier Award for Best Play. Earlier work includes the West End hits, Cressida, with Michael Gambon, and Mrs Klein. Other adaptations include Naked with Juliette Binoche, Three Sisters and Thérèse Raquin, both at the National. All his plays are published by NHB. He lives in West London.

Editorial Reviews

Her strict, penny-wise father was a first-generation Chinese immigrant. Her distracted globe-trotting mother was of German descent. Together, as all parents seem to do, they drove their teenaged daughter crazy. In this lively and smartly observed one-woman show recorded before a live audience, writer, performance artist, actress, and radio commentator Sandra Tsing Loh spares no embarrassing laugh-out-loud detail in describing her life growing up in hip 1970s Malibu, California, with parents who hadn't quite acclimated to the suburban middle-class American lifestyle. Loh is bitingly wonderful at mimicking her parents’ Chinese and German accents in a way that only a daughter could get away with, but she’s at her best, most touching and most satirical, when turning the jokes around on herself. B.P. © AudioFile 2014, Portland, Maine

MAY 2014 - AudioFile