The Rise and Fall of Little Voice (Acting Edition)
by Jim Cartwright

Name: The Rise and Fall of Little Voice (Acting Edition)
Brand: Jim Cartwright
SKU: 9780573018831
Rating: 3.78 (120 reviews)

The Rise and Fall of Little Voice (Acting Edition) Cover

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Highlights

Small Cast

Female

Male

120 minsPresent DayExpandable CastingInterior SetBritish Comedy

Awards & Recognition

Evening Standard AwardOlivier Award

Winner! Evening Standard Award for Best Comedy Winner! Olivier Awards for Best Comedy

What readers are saying

Readers find 'The Rise and Fall of Little Voice' to be a beautifully haunting and entertaining play that skillfully balances humor with emotional depth. Many appreciate the strong character portrayals and poetic script, making it a memorable experience.

Hauntingly beautiful blend of emotionsOutstanding characters and performancesExtremely entertaining and poeticSome find it just an enjoyable short play

Synopsis

Blown fuses, real and metaphorical, punctuate the action with flashes of pent up energy in this acclaimed play.

The diminutive heroine frequently plunges the dilapidated house she shares with her alcoholic mother into darkness by playing her dead father's records at a volume matched only by the soulful power of her vocal impressions.

Little Voice has a hidden talent: she can emulate every chanteuse from Judy Garland to Edith Piaf.

She hides in her room, crooning and dreaming of love, while her disheveled mother mistakes a seedy agent's interest as affection rather than enthusiasm for the gold mine buried in her daughter's throat.

This is an engaging fairy tale of despair, love and finally hope as LV finds a voice of her own.

Press Reviews

"Entertainment at its best.... Original, hilarious and hauntingly sad."
— London Daily Telegraph

"Utterly beguiling."
— London Daily Mail

"We leave singing, our happiness fired by a glowing mixture of grit and innocence, magic, irony and truth."
— What's On

"Extraordinary."
— London Daily Express

Available Editions

Format	Publisher	Year	Pages	ISBN-13	Price
Paperback · Revised ed.	Samuel French	1996	94	9780573018831	$17.00
Paperback	Samuel French	—	—	9780573695650	Buy

Publication

PublisherSamuel French

Year1996

BindingPaperback

EditionRevised ed.

Pages94

PlaceLondon

LanguageEnglish

ISBN-139780573018831

ISBN-100573018839

The Rise and Fall of Little Voice (Acting Edition) is a British comedy play written by Jim Cartwright and published by Samuel French in London (1996).