Since I was knee-high I have been blamed for everything;
broken ornaments, the price of biscuits, my own personality. It has
become my father's habit to blame me for existing, like throwing a
blanket over a sparrow. And now I'm being blamed for the nervous
breakdown of an anorexic nymphomaniac whom he married because she came
thirty fourth inThe Daily Mailhundred sexiest women of 1988.
Piano/Forteis a bold new comedy from one of the stage's favourite
writers. On the eve of his wedding to the glamorous Dawn, Clifford's
plans for a joyous celebration are thrown into turmoil by the return
home of his estranged daughter Louise. Her plans to exact revenge prove
to have explosive consequences.
Terry Johnson'sprevious plays for the Royal Court are
Hitchcock Blonde,
Hysteriaand
Insignificance. Other work includes an adaptation of
The Graduate,
Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle And Dick(National Theatre/winner Olivier Award for Best Comedy 1998), an adaptation of
The London Cuckolds,
Dead Funny(Winner Critic Circle Award for Best Play, Time Out Drama Award 1994),
Imagine Drowning,
Cries FromThe Mammal House,
Unsuitable For Adults(Bush).
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