Cooking with Elvis & Bollocks (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780413748607)

Two comic plays by Lee Hall which have had success at the Edinburgh Festival and are coming to London in February 2000

Cooking with Elvis is a domestic play that is both farcical and upsetting. Mam and Jill live together in an uneasy calm. Jill is overweight and a fiendish cook who whips up one exotic dish after another. Her father (and Mam's husband) is stuck in a wheel chair as the result of a stroke. He can neither speak nor move, but he can hear. He was a famous Elvis impersonator and from time to time steps out of the wheel chair in a series of fantasy scenes to give stirring renditions of some of Elvis's most famous hits. But Mam brings into the house a new young lover whose presence in the house become the source for hilarity and big time trouble. The ending is a deadly one, you can be sure. The play has been compared to the early black farces of Joe Orton. Also included in this volume is Bollocks , Lee Hall's contemporary version of the Expressionist German playwright Ernst Toller's Hinkemann, which has been updated from twenties Bavaria to contemporary Tyneside.

Author: Lee Hall
ISBN-10: 041374860X
ISBN-13: 9780413748607
Publisher: Methuen Drama
Language: English
Published: 10/11/2006
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.32lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.30d