Fashion', 'Progress', 'Hard Feelings', 'Doing the Business': Progress, Hard Feelings, Doing the Business
By (Author) Doug Lucie
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Methuen Drama
1st August 2006
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
822.914
Paperback
288
Width 120mm, Height 186mm, Spine 18mm
330g
"Doug Lucie is perhaps the only young British dramatist with a truly distinctive voice and in Fashion, it is at its most splendidly scornful, bilious and charmless." Benedict Nightingale (The Times)
Doug Lucie is one of Britain's most acerbic playwrights. Described as "thrillingly acute and a serious piece of writing" (Independent), his play Fashion captured the spirit of the Thatcherite age with chilling accuracy. Premiered at the RSC at The Other Place in 1987, it was subsequently revived at The Tricycle Theatre, Kilburn in 1990 and won a Time Out award. Also included are Progress and Hard Feelings, which established Lucie's genius for social comedy and Doing The Business, a bitingly sardonic indictment of business sponsorship for the Arts.
Doug Lucie was born in Chessington, Surrey, in 1953. His plays include Doing the Business; Fashion; Fear of the Dark; Force and Hypocrisy; Gaucho; Grace; The Green Man; Hard Feelings; Heroes; John Clare's Mad, Nuncle; The Key to the World; Love You, Too; The New Garbo; Oh Well; Pass It On; Poison; Progress; Rough Trade; The Shallow End; Strangers In the Night and We Love You.