Glee & Me E-Book

Stuart Slade

• Herausgeber: Nick Hern Books
• Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2021

Beschreibung

'A vinaigrette of despair poured over a salad of joy.' Lola is sixteen years old, sharp-witted and has her whole life ahead of her – until she's diagnosed with a malignant brain tumour. Now her brilliant mind is rapidly turning into useless mush. So she's promised herself two things before she dies: 1. She's going to get All The Sex and 2. She'll definitively discover the Meaning of Life. Stuart Slade's play Glee & Me is an unexpectedly optimistic portrayal of love and the extraordinary resilience of the human spirit. It won the Judges Award in the 2019 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting, and was first performed at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, in September 2021.

Leseprobe

Stuart Slade

GLEE & ME

NICK HERN BOOKS

London

www.nickhernbooks.co.uk

Contents

Dedication

Original Production Details

Character

Glee & Me

About the Author

Copyright and Performing Rights Information

This play is dedicated, with all my love,

Glee & Me was first performed at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, on 11 September 2021. The cast was as follows:

LOLA

Liv Hill

Director

Nimmo Ismail

Designer

Anna Yates

Lighting Designer

Jess Bernberg

Sound Designer

George Dennis

Assistant Director

Maria Zemlinskaya

Movement Director

Chi-San Howard

Assistant Script Supervisor

Lucy Slade

Voice Coach

Natalie Grady

Casting Director

Lotte Hines CDG

Casting Assistant

Olivia Barr

Company Stage Manager

Scott McDonald

Deputy Stage Manager

Sarah Barnes

Assistant Stage Manager

Loren Rayner-Booth/ Sarah Wardle

Production Manager

Dan Turner/ Mark Distin Webster

Dramaturg

Suzanne Bell

Bruntwood Coordinator

Chloe Smith

Producer

Justina Aina

Character

LOLA, sixteen years old

This ebook was created before the end of rehearsals and so may differ slightly from the play as performed.

Scene One

Hey!

Pause.

So – Okay – what’s the best way of putting this? So you know how the B-set dudes –

Relentlessly hardworking, wall-to-wall highlighter on every single page of their set texts –

(Whispers.) But just a tiny bit tragically slow – sorry – always start off their essays? The Oxford English Dictionary defines –

Man.

Mimes blowing off head with a pistol.

Fuck it – I’m totally gonna be at one with my dimwitted bredren soon – so let’s try it on for size –

The OED defines Glee as ‘great delight, especially from one’s own good fortune… or another’s misfortune’.

Now, there’s a bunch of both sorts of glee in this – good glee and bad glee –

So it kinda works as a title, I reckon –

Glee & Me.

Punchy, right?

I thought about calling it Glee-ma & Me – with the ‘oma’ in brackets –

But that’d be a massively depressing downer, I reckon –

Wanted to keep it nice and light –