Killer Joe - Couverture souple

Letts, Tracy

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1848427565 ISBN 13 : 9781848427563

Editeur : Nick Hern Books, 2018

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

A powerful but intoxicating play...races along towards an explosive climax. --British Theatre Guide

Keeps you hooked from the outset... Cleverly plotted and queasily gripping, Letts's play offers a prophetic portrait of a society that, in its reliance on the small screen, is in danger of entertaining itself to death. --Guardian

Fiercely disturbing... There is no denying the play's power to provoke and to hold the audience in a fierce grip. --WhatsOnStage

Undeniably pacey and involving... hard, dark, action-packed... there are enough lurid thrills here to send the casual theatregoer out into the night with the right sort of shiver. --Time Out

Violent and vile but also tender and truthful by turns... This sinister, pitch-black comedy summons a vivid world, recognisable from Tennessee Williams to Sam Shepard, of life lived on the edges of desperation and longing that's etched deep into the American psyche. LondonTheatre.co.uk

I challenge anyone to explain Letts's play fully, but you come out of this unsettling, nasty, amusing evening knowing that you have had an experience. --The Times

This revealing and disquieting play [portrays] trailer park Americana in all its unflinching glory... It's dark and disturbing.. but to ignore this side of life exists is naive at best. This revealing and disquieting play truly has to be seen to be believed. --Theatre Weekly

A terrifically tasty potboiler... a pungent reminder that characters in the theater don't have to be poetic or even passionate to hold your interest... white-trash Gothic with a comic-book spin... deeply funny. --New York Times on the original Off Broadway production

Présentation de l'éditeur :

One of the best American plays of the past quarter century. --Wall Street Journal

The Smith family hatch a plan to murder their estranged matriarch for her insurance money. They hire Joe Cooper, a police detective and part-time contract killer, to do the job. But once he enters their trailer home and comes face to face with their innocent daughter, the plan spirals out of control...

A tense, gut-twisting thriller, Killer Joe asks where the moral line is drawn in the fight for survival

This edition of Tracy Letts' gripping thriller is published alongside the West End production, starring Orlando Bloom in the title role.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Nick Hern Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1848427565
• ISBN 13: 9781848427563
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 88