The Pride (NHB Modern Plays)

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The powerful debut play from Alexi Kaye Campbell, winner of an Olivier Award, the Critics' Circle Award for Most Promising Playwright, and the John Whiting Award for Best New Play.
Alternating between 1958 and 2008, The Pride examines changing attitudes to sexuality, looking at intimacy, identity and the courage it takes to be who you really are.
The 1958 Philip is in love with Oliver, but married to Sylvia. The 2008 Oliver is addicted to sex with strangers. Sylvia loves them both.
This new edition of the play was published alongside its revival at the Trafalgar Studios in the West End in 2013.
'marvellous, sad and blisteringly funny… a brave and rewarding drama that speaks to us all' Guardian
'ingenious and imaginative' Evening Standard
'a remarkable debut from a daring dramatist' Telegraph

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85 printed pages

Copyright owner: Bookwire
Original publication: 2013
Publication year: 2013

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Miranda Summarhas quoted6 years ago
needed to feel… what it was like. My whole body, my whole being craved it. So I went. It was as if I was watching myself. There were men… there was this one man and he… I didn’t know him. He didn’t know me. We barely talked. Just a word. We didn’t even really look at each other. And then… then it was as if I wasn’t quite there. It was over in a couple of minutes. But it was as if I wasn’t really myself. As if I was watching. Like a bystander. A witness. I can’t describe it.
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