{"product_id":"road-9781350053816","title":"Road","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhy's the world so tough? It's like walking through meat in high heels.\u003c\/i\u003eA road, a wild night; a drunken guide, Scullery, conducts a tour of the derelict Lancashire road on which he lives. In this seminal play that gives expression to the road''s poverty-stricken inhabitants, we are taken on a journey from the gutter to the stars and back.This is published to coincide with the revival of Jim Cartwright's 1986 game-changing play to the Royal Court, London in June 2017.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUncomfortable and magical, funny and bitter. It is a northern \u003ci\u003eUnder Milk Wood,\u003c\/i\u003e high on pills and booze * Sunday Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRoad\u003c\/i\u003e is indeed an original, affecting, rumbustious and truly remarkable piece of work * Financial Times *\u003cbr\u003eThe writing [is] so immediate and entertaining too. As a first piece of work [it] is absolutely seminal. * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003e...Jim Cartwright's 1986 account of a community scarred by unemployment that couldn't be more relevant or rousing...**** -- The Guardian\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRoad \u003c\/i\u003eis a hard, occasionally transcendent evening and also a gauntlet to modern playwrights...**** -- The Telegraph\u003cbr\u003e...Cartwright's vivid language, with its ugly-beautiful poetry, its rage and compassion, still grabs you by the heart and throat and squeezes, hard. **** -- The Times\u003cbr\u003e...its message comes at us with a vengeance. -- The Radio Times","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52084825719127,"sku":"9781350053816","price":16.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350053816.jpg?v=1762207284","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/road-9781350053816","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}