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Osment Plays: 1

Dearly Beloved; What I Did in the Holidays; Flesh and Blood

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Osment Plays: 1

Dearly Beloved; What I Did in the Holidays; Flesh and Blood

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Osment's trilogy of 'Devon Plays' draw on his background growing up on a farm in North Devon and were produced in the mid-1990s by Cambridge Theatre Company (Method and Madness).


The Dearly Beloved (1993): 'Local boy made good comes back to visit his mother in a small West Country town where his presence brings home to his friends who stayed put the various ways in which their lives have failed ... you can't but be reminded of Chekhov at times.' Independent


What I Did in the Holidays (1995): 'Osment's wonderfully dense and detailed study of fraught life in rurally non-swinging Britain. The play charts a painfully funny path through the casual everyday cruelties inflicted by the thoughtless young and selfish old. Osment's play is a delight.' Evening Standard


Flesh and Blood (1996): 'Brilliant at evoking the nostalgia of Devon country life in a strange, recidivist family ... and in the elision between outdoor lust and indoor stuffiness.' Observer

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Dearly Beloved; What I Did in the Holidays; Flesh and Blood

Product details

Explore Methuen Drama
Published 11 Jul 2014
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 320
ISBN 9781408177990
Imprint Methuen Drama
Series Contemporary Dramatists
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Author

Philip Osment

Philip Osment read Modern Languages at Keble Colle…

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