Finlayson: Plays: Misfits; Winding the Ball

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Includes the plays Misfits and Winding the Ball Two plays from an award-winning American playwright. Misfits looks at the break up of the Arthur Miller/Marilyn Monroe marriage during the shooting of the controversial film 'The Misfits'. Winding the Ball is a luridly funny play in which desperate ambition translates into senseless violence.

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Alex Finlayson is one of America's most original and distinctive contemporary playwrights. Her plays include, 'Misfits', 'World of Beauty', 'Last Piece of Flat Land', 'Love and Adultery', 'The Bad Doctor' and 'Ladies' Side' (Helen Hayes Award nominee for Best New Play, Washington DC). 'Winding the Ball' won the Mobil Playwrighting Competition in 1988. It was premiered at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, as were 'Misfits' and 'Tobaccoland'.