The 'Year Of The Monkey' And Other Plays: The Year of the Monkey , Designs for Living , Sodom

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"The Year of the Monkey", origianlly written for BBC Radio 3, comprises "Bonfire Night", in which a daughter takes sweet revenge, "Arsehammers", where a grandson is sure that his grandfather's strange disappearances reveal supernatural powers, "The Allotment", in which a quiet community of pensioners create a radical, anarchic commune by mistake, and "The Year of the Monkey", where a mother yearns for some bad behaviour to puncture the boredome of her middle-class life. "Designs for Living" is a modern love story, challenging conventions of identity and sexuality, and "Sodom" reveals Old Testament morality alive and well in middle England.

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Claire Dowie is a writer/performer/poet/comedian, and pioneer of 'stand-up theatre'. After starting out on the 'alternative' comedy circuit, she switched to stand-up comedy and to writing plays 'when the punchlines ran out'. Her first, Cat and Mouse, was performed in 1987, followed by Adult Child/De ad Child, which won a Time Out Award. Other works include Came Out, It Rained, Went Back In Again fo r BBC2's City Shorts season, and Kevin for Central Children's Television.