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Peggy For You

(Paperback)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

Peggy For You

Contributors:

By (Author) Alan Plater

ISBN:

9780413748102

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Imprint:

Methuen Drama

Publication Date:

1st August 2006

Country:

United Kingdom

Classifications

Readership:

General

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Main Subject:
Dewey:

822

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

112

Dimensions:

Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 7mm

Weight:

80g

Description

A new comic drama, starring Maureen Lipman, about the life of the famous play agent, Peggy Ramsay, who helped transform post-war British drama Alan Plater's play for the Hampstead Theatre in London is a witty and poignant portrait of Margaret 'Peggy' Ramsay, the larger-than-life play agent who nurtured several generations of British playwrights (John Arden, Alan Ayckbourn, Robert Bolt, Edward Bond, David Hare, Caryl Churchill, David Hare, Christopher Hampton, Joe Orton, and others) from the late 1950s to the early 1980s. Peggy was one of the most influential behind-the-scenes figures in post-war British theatre. Focusing on one fateful day of her life, when old clients are exiting and new ones are entering, Plater's play is a meditation on the creative spirit. The play premired at the Hampstead Theatre, London, 23 November 1999. "Alan Plater's hilarious celebration of the late literary agent Peggy Ramsay" (The Times)

Reviews

"Alan Plater's hilarious celebration of the late literary agent Peggy Ramsay." --The Times

Author Bio

Alan Plater was born in 1935 in Jarrow, near the river Tyne. Brought up in Hull, he trained as an architect in Newcastle. He has been a full-time writer since 1961, with over two hundred assorted credits in radio, television, theatre and films - plus six novels, occasional journalism, broadcasting and teaching. His first plays were written for radio, including The Journal of Vasilije Bogdanovic, which won the inaugural 1983 Sony Radio Award.

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