One Hand Clapping
by Lucia Cox

One Hand Clapping Book Cover
One Hand Clapping Cover

Synopsis

Sometimes when I'm at work and waiting for customers I think about the two of us living like kings and not bothering about the future.

Because there may not be any future to bother about, you know.

Not for anybody, one of these days.

And it's a wicked world.

Average couple Janet and Howard's lives begin to unravel when Howard's photographic memory helps win him a gameshow fortune.

Janet doesn't want their lives to change that much.

She's quite happy working at the supermarket, cooking for her husband three times a day and watching quiz shows in the evening.

But once Howard unleashes his photographic brain on the world, the once modest used-car salesman can't seem to stop.

And what he sees as the logical conclusion to his success isn't something Janet can agree to.

Burgess's 1961 darkly comic satire of drab English consumerism is adapted for the stage by Lucia Cox.

This edition was published to coincide with the US premiere at the Brits Off-Broadway Festival, at 59E59 Theatre, New York, in May 2015.

Performance

Cast

A small cast size of 3 total roles, 1 female and 2 male roles.

Publication

Publisher
Methuen
Year Published
2015
ISBN 10
1474253806
ISBN 13
9781474253802
Print Length
64 pages
Place Published
London
Language
English
LCCN
2014472793
LCC
PR6103.O9754 O54 2015
eISBN 13
9781474253819
Print
One Hand Clapping is a British murder and mystery play written by and published by Methuen in London, 2015. The print edition has an ISBN-13 of 9781474253802 and an ISBN-10 of 1474253806.
Digital
ePlay digital editions are available on Apple Books Google Play with an ISBN-13 of 9781474253819.

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