How My Light Is Spent E-Book

Alan Harris

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

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

Every Wednesday evening, Jimmy calls Kitty. For precisely nine minutes. At £1.20 a minute. Jimmy is thirty-four, lives with his mum and works at Newport's only drive-through doughnut restaurant. Kitty is an adult chatline operator, living in the granny flat of a topiary enthusiast. Things were looking up for Jimmy, but then he loses his job and he begins to disappear, starting with his hands. Will this unlikely duo succeed in turning each other's world upside down? Alan Harris's play How My Light Is Spent is a funny, hopeful drama about loneliness, longing and being left behind. Winner of the Judges' Award in the 2015 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting, it premiered in 2017 at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, in a co-production with Sherman Theatre and Theatre by the Lake, Keswick.

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Alan Harris

HOW MY LIGHTIS SPENT

NICK HERN BOOKS

London

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Contents

Original Production

Note on Play

How My Light Is Spent

About the Author

Copyright and Performing Rights Information

How My Light Is Spent was the winner of the Judges’ Award in the 2015 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting. It was first performed at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, on 24 April 2017, in a co-production with Sherman Theatre and Theatre by the Lake, Keswick. The cast was as follows:

JIMMY

Rhodri Meilir

KITTY

Alexandria Riley

Director

Liz Stevenson

Designer

Fly Davis

Lighting Designer

Joshua Pharo

Sound Designer

Giles Thomas

Movement

Polly Bennett

Assistant Director

Andy Routledge

Casting Director

Jerry Knight-Smith CDG

Stage Manager

Sarah Goodyear

Stage Manager Intern

Annie Fletcher

Production Manager

Greg Skipwort

Note on Play

This play was written for any number of performers, and the lines of dialogue can be divided up as future productions see fit. However, the original production was performed with two actors.

– at the end of a line indicates the next line following on immediately.

Italics are for real-time dialogue.

Narrative dialogue is not in italics.

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

Kitty, my hands have disappeared.

Pardon?

I woke up this morning and they were… In the night I could feel them seeping away. I woke up, held them up to the light shining through the blinds and there they weren’t.