Lady Day and Revelations

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Bloomsbury Academic, 2003 - 180 pages

In Lady Day, Katya discovers her husband is having an affair with her best friend so she hibernates to a derelict lake-side cottage, to re-invent her life in the depths of winter, but none of her friends or family will leave her in peace. All the men in her life fall in love with her again. Comic mayhem ensues as the men duel to the death for the illusive Lady.
When a miraculous stranger comes to the aid of a desolate cliff-top village that is ravaged by devastating storms and erosion, he is proclaimed as the new Messiah, even though the stranger protests that he is an atheist. In Revelations he enjoys his power without accepting responsibility for his actions, until he meets his spiritual nemesis in the storm of the century.

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Common terms and phrases

Alright angel arms beam believe BETH Big Jude bloody boat BULFORD Candlemas church roof Clacton-on-Sea cliff cottage course Crazy Jane d'you think damn dear deckchair DON's don't just sit Donald duel Emily Dickinson Errol Flynn eyes face fight give God's sake goin Grinning hand Haxton hell inside Jed Thomas JOE's JUDITH Kant KATYA laughs kneels Lady Day lake lightnin lightning live look MAGGY MARK MARK's Master Mecano miracle never nose-picking nuthin Oh c'mon Pause picnic pistols pray Primus stove realise ROB's round SANDRA Seafall Shaking his head shotgun SIMON Smiling Sorry stares Stephen STEVE stop storm STRANGER Sunken Village sure sweetheart sword tell Tescos there's things Tom O'Bedlam torch touch tree turns VICAR Waitrose watching Wendover What's who's wind wine woods Yeah

About the author (2003)

David Pinner trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, after which he appeared on stage and television in many roles. While he was playing the lead in 'The Mousetrap' in the West End, he wrote his first novel 'Ritual'(later made into the film The Wicker Man). He has written two other novels 'With My Body' and 'There’ll Always Be An England'. His stage plays include 'Dickon', 'Cartoon', 'Lucifer’s Fair', 'Hereward The Wake', 'The Potsdam Quartet', 'Shakebag', 'An Evening With The G.L.C.', 'Screwball', 'Revelations', 'The Teddy Bears’ Picnic', 'The Last Englishman', 'The Sins of the Mother', 'Lenin in Love'.

Bibliographic information

TitleLady Day and Revelations
Oberon Modern Plays
AuthorDavid Pinner
PublisherBloomsbury Academic, 2003
Original fromthe University of Michigan
Digitized3 Mar 2008
ISBN1840023856, 9781840023855
Length180 pages
  
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