Road
by Jim Cartwright

Name: Road
Brand: Jim Cartwright
SKU: 9780573016646
Rating: 3.6 (278 reviews)

Highlights

Female

Male

120 mins Ensemble Cast Unit Set/Multiple Settings Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes British

Synopsis

Under the guidance of the rum-soaked wideboy Scullery, we are taken on an evening's tour of a scruffy, depressed road in a small Lancashire town.

Moving from street corner to living room, from bedroom to kitchen, we meet the inhabitants of young, middle-aged, and old, glimpsing their socially and emotionally wretched lives, in this sharp, sad, funny, and angry play.

Press Reviews

"Uncomfortable and magical...funny and bitter. It is a northern Under Milk Wood, high on pills and booze."
— The London Sunday Times

"The climax comes when two flash lads have picked up two girls...This sequence is simply one of the most unlikely, audacious and, in the event, riveting scenes to be found currently in the theatre."
— London Financial Times

"Beneath the gags, the playwright's rumbling sense of lost dignity resulting from unemployment, chauvinism or from simply getting paralytically pissed, give this stunning debut a perceptive and frightening reality."
— City Limits

"Mr. Cartwright is asking the right question and he has something to say. The question is, why is the world so hard?"
— London Observer

"The debut of a writer of outstanding talent."
— London Sunday Telegraph

Characters

Character	Gender	Age	Description
Louise a young girl	—	—	a young girl
Carol a young girl	—	—	a young girl
Brink a young man	—	—	a young man
Eddie a young lad	—	—	a young lad
Dor a tarted up woman	female	—	a tarted up woman
Lane a tarted up woman	female	—	a tarted up woman
Skin LAD	—	—	LAD
Molly an old woman	female	—	an old woman
Chantal young girl of about 16	—	—	young girl of about 16
Jerry a middle-aged man	—	—	a middle-aged man
Clare a young girl of about 16	—	—	a young girl of about 16
Joey a young lad of about 17	—	—	a young lad of about 17
Bisto a DJ	—	—	a DJ
Tom Stanley pub compere	—	—	pub compere
Electric Clutch 3 dancers	—	—	3 dancers
Manfred chip shop owner	—	—	chip shop owner
Scotch Girl his assistant	male	—	his assistant
Curt a youg lad	—	—	a youg lad
Helen a middle-aged woman	female	—	a middle-aged woman
Valerie a woman in her mid-30s	female	30s	a woman in her mid-30s
Marion a drunk woman	female	—	a drunk woman
Linda a girl of about 12	—	—	a girl of about 12
Brenda Carol's mother	female	—	Carol's mother