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Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, London, EUR >>>

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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A tough comedy dealing with addiction

Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh Festival

2004

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

Monologue

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Writer Nick Grosso wrote this monologue for actor Jake Wood, who plays Tommy Kay, a daft, crude, flash Cockney having a bit of a dabble at stand-up. But it ain't stand-up: it isn't organic, doesn't feed off the crowd, and lacks an actual limelight-hungry comic. And as a piece of theatre, who is this character Kay and what's the point, please? But, as Kay says in one of his typically twisted pieces of reasoning: "What's the point? The point is you're too busy wondering what the point is to see the point." Putting the red pen away, it is very funny, a rhapsody in non-sequitur, bigoted inanity, self-serving nonsense. It's an A-Z of geezerish tic and flourish: nah, yer, know wha' ah mean, innit, dawlin'. Kay spits and fumes, gets into all manner of logical tangles and then blames us. To the title: "Everyone's second-favourite alive Beatle" features little, other than to enrage Kay, who hears him on the radio exhorting all not to drink milk, and a ghastly Let It Be cover. - Scotsman

2002

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Methuen Drama, London >>>, 2002

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Surreal Comedy

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Gathered in a kosher bar in North London are a foulmouthed cabbie, who can't stop blubbing, an old woman in a wheelchair, who hears only what she chooses to, and the world's worst waitress, wearing nothing but her smalls. Joining them is a man with no name who takes them on at their own game. Combining the restraint of Beckett's dialogue with the grotesque world of a Berkoff, Grosso's new play is a sustained black comedy that pushes stereotypes to the absolute limit, and then brings them back to reality again

1993

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

Monologue

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in "Coming on Strong" Faber, London, 1995

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first stage play

1998

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Faber and Faber, London, 1998

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shock as best mate opens new restaurant and does not invite him to celebratory party causes investigation

1996

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Faber and Faber, London, 1996

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Charlie is twenty something, he's got big plans, he's just not sure what they are…