Wiping My Mother's ***E
By (Author) Iain Heggie
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Methuen Drama
1st August 2006
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
822.914
Paperback
128
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 8mm
100g
When Derek's girlfriend Kath decides to move in with him she follows the advice of her favourite chat-show host and asks to meet his family. Derek's mother is in a nursing home, resentful of June, the patient with no arms and legs, who gets all the attention. The only saving grace is her care assistant Larry - a camp, ageing clubber. However, what Derek and Kath don't know is that Larry holds the key to a few secrets that are perhaps best left in the closet...
Iain Heggie's first play, A WHOLLY HEALTHY GLASGOW, won the Special Prize in the 1985 Mobil Playwrit ing Competition and was subsequently produced by the Royal Exchange Theatre, where Iain was Arts cou ncil Writer in Residence. AMERICAN BAGPIPES, winner of the John Whiting Award 1988, premiered at the Royal Exchange before transferring to the Royal Court. CLYDE NOUVEAU followed as an Edinburgh Festi val production directed by Michael Boyd in 1989. AN EXPERIENCED WOMAN GIVES ADVICE premiered at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester in November 1995. TOURIST VARIATIONS (composed by James MacMillan ) was presented as an official Edinburgh Festival production at the Traverse in 1998. He is currentl y under commission to write MY FRIENDS IN SHOWBUSINESS, a new play for the Royal Exchange Theatre, M anchester and is developing THE ADVENTURES OF MUMMY'S BOY a new sitcom for Channel 4.