Steaming
by Nell Dunn

Broadway West End
Steaming Book Cover
Steaming Cover

Highlights

120 mins 1970s Strong Role for Leading Woman (Star Vehicle) Interior Set Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes British Comedy

Awards & Recognition

Olivier Award

Winner! 1981 Olivier Award for Best New Comedy Winner! 1981-1982 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize

Synopsis

A two act play fro a cast of one man and 5 women

Steaming is set in the Turkish Bath of a run-down Public Baths in the East End of London, where five women regularly meet to bathe, relax, and share their troubles.

Press Reviews

"A lovely play suffused with affection."

— London Times

"Full of lively, ribald humour."

— London New Standard

"Enjoyable... a cross-section of British femininity spanning all ages and classes."

— The New York Times

Characters

Character
Josie
Bill
Dawn
Mrs. Meadow
Nancy
Jane
Violet

Publication

Publisher AmberLane Press
Year 1984
Binding Paperback
Edition Acting Edition
Pages 80
Place Ambergate, Derbyshire
Language English
ISBN-13 9780906399309
ISBN-10 0906399300
LCCN 83234876
LCC PR6054.U55 S7 1981
DCC 822/.914

Steaming is a British comedy play written by Nell Dunn and published by AmberLane Press in Ambergate, Derbyshire (1984).

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