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Home Comedy The Clink
The Clink

The Clink

$24.99

ISBN: 9781854594440
Author: By Stephen Jeffreys
Publication Date: 25/06/1999
Publisher: Nick Hern Books
Extent: 90pp.
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SKU: BK2197 Categories: Comedy, Full-length, Nick Hern Books, Plays, Political / social themes Tag: Nick Hern Books
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A riotously funny satirical farce in the tradition of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead and Shakespeare in Love, from the author of The Libertine.

Elizabeth I is tottering at death’s door. Conspirators are everywhere. Lucius Bodkin, an Elizabethan stand-up comedian, becomes unwillingly involved in the political skullduggery and jiggery-pokery surrounding the ailing queen.

The Clink could pass itself off as a long-lost Elizabethan comedy. In fact it is a brilliant political satire offering many sharp parallels with our own times, when art must be sponsored, but to be sponsored it must be ‘safe’.

Stephen Jeffreys’s play was first staged by Paines Plough in 1990 on tour in Britain and Holland.

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