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Union
Max Wilkinson
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R322
Discovery Miles 3 220
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The city is sweet and summered and partly asleep. The city is
angry. And tonight: one of us is going to die. On the eve of the
biggest deal of her career, Saskia, an uber-successful property
developer runs from the meeting, all the way home down the Grand
Union Canal. Plagued by phone calls and ghosts, she meets a myriad
of characters looking to make or break her. She realises, as her
shiny life unravels, that she doesn’t know herself anymore or the
city she once loved. Can she still save a little piece of it? From
the award-winning, Offie-nominated writer of Rainer, Max
Wilkinson's Union is a wildly hilarious odyssey through London, in
all its brilliant, booze-soaked yuppified but still punk glory.
Just as Saskia fears she is losing her own soul to greed, it’s
about the fear that London is losing that same battle but is still
defined by a beautiful beating heart and the people who live in it.
Born from creative workshops led for several years by Max with
local communities across London, Union is a black comedy, a love
letter and a passionate call to arms. This edition was published to
coincide with the world premiere at the Arcola Theatre, London, in
July 2023.
Some guys listen to music, some guys like to sing. I like to work
people out. Rainer is a solitary delivery rider, moving across
London, delivering food to whoever will summon her. From luxury
flats to leafy suburbs, she loves to create stories in her head,
re-imagining London as one of her favourite sci-fi films or
Scorsese's Taxi Driver. She loves her life. Until reality starts to
slip and she begins forgetting stuff - even the city she knows so
well. And when her one-time lover Jack disappears, when her mum
keeps on calling, she has to ask herself: is everything really
okay? A one-woman show partly inspired by Dylan Thomas's Under
Milkwood, Rainer is a celebration of a city and the people within
it, seen and unseen. It was a finalist for Samuel French's
Off-Broadway Award, longlisted for Theatre Uncut's Political
Playwriting Award and winner of the Prix Royal competition in
Paris. This edition was published to coincide with the production
at the Arcola Theatre, London, in June 2022.
For over 20 years, the Greyhound of the Seas, the Cunard Liner
"Mauretania" held the record for the fastest Transatlantic
crossing. Much loved and admired, after two decades as the pinnacle
of ocean liners, her time came to end. First laid up and then, in a
fanfare of nostalgia, consigned to the breaker's yard in Rosyth,
she ended her life at the hands of a breaker's torch. Although
modern historians revile such an ignominious fate, the
"Mauretania's" demise helped to rekindle local industries, her
steel helping to build the next generation of ocean liner - and her
sumptuous fittings being snapped up by owners of stately homes and
public houses to give future generations a hint as to the luxury
the "Mauretania" once embodied. To this end, this slim volume
recounts the end of the ship's life and the ensuing demolition
process, an epilogue often overlooked in many books due to its
obvious distasteful nature to ocean liner enthusiasts.
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