A01=Charlotte Jones
Author_Charlotte Jones
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Ghosts
Marriage
Product details
- ISBN 9780571233748
- Weight: 146g
- Dimensions: 126 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 16 Nov 2006
- Publisher: Faber & Faber
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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North London at Halloween. Celebrity ghost-writer Max Villiers and his wife Harriet, a talented shopper, host a party. As Max connects his first plasma TV, the evening is hijacked by interference from the past. There are trick-or-treaters at the door and strangers on the brand new rug.
A shocking and darkly humorous play.
The Lightning Play premiered at the Almeida Theatre, London, in November 2006.
Charlotte Jones has written six stage plays: Airswimming, In Flame, Martha, Josie and the Chinese Elvis, Humble Boy, The Dark and The Lightning Play. She won the Critics' Circle Most Promising Playwright award 1999. Martha, Josie and the Chinese Elvis won the Pearson TV Best New Play Award and Manchester Evening News Best New Play Award 1999. Humble Boy won the Critics' Circle Best New Play 2001, Susan Smith Blackburn Award, People's Choice Best New Play 2001 and was nominated for an Olivier award and a Drama Desk Award. It ran at the National Theatre and in the West End and has since been produced all over the world. She also she wrote the book for Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical of Wilkie Collins' novel The Woman in White (lyrics by David Zippel) which ran in the West End and on Broadway. She has also written for extensively for TV, Film and Radio.
