Road (Modern Plays) - Softcover

Uncomfortable and magical, funny and bitter. It is a northern Under Milk Wood, high on pills and booze * Sunday Times * Road is indeed an original, affecting, rumbustious and truly remarkable piece of work * Financial Times * The writing [is] so immediate and entertaining too. As a first piece of work [it] is absolutely seminal. * Guardian * ...Jim Cartwright's 1986 account of a community scarred by unemployment that couldn't be more relevant or rousing...**** -- The Guardian Road is a hard, occasionally transcendent evening and also a gauntlet to modern playwrights...**** -- The Telegraph ...Cartwright's vivid language, with its ugly-beautiful poetry, its rage and compassion, still grabs you by the heart and throat and squeezes, hard. **** -- The Times ...its message comes at us with a vengeance. -- The Radio Times

"Why's the world so tough? It's like walking through meat in high heels." A road, a wild night; a drunken guide, Scullery, conducts a tour of the derelict Lancashire road on which he lives. In this seminal play that gives expression to the road's poverty-stricken inhabitants, we are taken on a journey from the gutter to the stars and back. This is published to coincide with the revival of Jim Cartwright's 1986 game-changing play to the Royal Court, London in June 2017.