{"product_id":"adventures-in-the-skin-trade-an-antifaustian-tale-of-seven-deadly-skins-plays-for-young-people-9781474269513","title":"Adventures in the Skin Trade An AntiFaustian Tale","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLucy Gough was recently invited to take up the Granada artist residency at the University of California Davis, where she wrote and directed a live radio\/theatre piece which was performed and broadcast. She has just been awarded a Creative Wales Award to explore the role of the writer in Physical Theatre. She was also a finalist for the BBC Wales Drama Award 2012 and the Nick Darke Award 2013.Dylan Thomas was born in Swansea in 1914. After leaving school he worked  briefly as a junior reporter on the South Wales Evening Post before  deciding to embark on a freelance literary career. He rapidly  established himself as a remarkable personality and one of the finest  poets of his generation.\u003ci\u003e 18 Poems\u003c\/i\u003e appeared in 1934, \u003ci\u003eTwenty-five Poems\u003c\/i\u003e in 1936, \u003ci\u003eDeaths and Entrances\u003c\/i\u003e in 1946 and \u003ci\u003eIn Country Sleep \u003c\/i\u003ein  1952. His Collected Poems was published in 1952. Throughout his life,  Thomas also wrote short stories, his most famous collection being \u003ci\u003ePortrait of the Artist as a\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLucy Gough has adapted it for the stage and she has created a new play in the unmistakable tones of Thomas . . . What Lucy Gough allows us to hear is the unmistakeable voice of Dylan Thomas grappling with recalcitrant material and providing the audience with entertaining diversion while he struggles. -- Victor Hallett * Theatre in Wales *\u003cbr\u003eDylan Thomas devotees who make the effort to go along will be entranced, amused, and perhaps a little shocked.? -- Othniel Smith * British Theatre Guide *\u003cbr\u003eDylan Thomas’s gloriously surreal coming of age (and unfinished) novel about a young man adrift in a nightmarish, nihilistic London is given new life and energy by acclaimed writer Lucy Gough. * Daily Telegraph *\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040126501207,"sku":"9781474269513","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781474269513.jpg?v=1750945820","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/adventures-in-the-skin-trade-an-antifaustian-tale-of-seven-deadly-skins-plays-for-young-people-9781474269513","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}