Alecky Blythe

The Girlfriend Experience (NHB Modern Plays)

Notify me when the book’s added
To read this book, upload an EPUB or FB2 file to Bookmate. How do I upload a book?
A true-life play about friendship, heartbreak and business enterprise… in a seaside brothel.
Tessa has set up a business: a brothel where mature women specialise in offering the 'Girlfriend Experience', a surprisingly caring and sympathetic service.
As the women stoically strive to make a living in a competitive market, their personal lives start to crumble. Will they ever have loving relationships outside work and enjoy being girlfriends themselves?
The Girlfriend Experience continues the verbatim-theatre technique Alecky Blythe developed in Come Out Eli and Cruising. The play is created entirely from conversations recorded inside an actual brothel, edited and replicated on stage in all their uncanny verisimilitude.
'funny, touching and absolutely filthy… a hugely entertaining eye-opener of a show' — Telegraph
'poignant, sometimes disturbing, often riotously funny' — The Times
'These women aren't patronised or made into gargoyles: their sentences are gorgeous. They simply reveal their lives. What more could you want from the theatre?' — Observer
This book is currently unavailable
74 printed pages
Original publication
2014
Publication year
2014
Have you already read it? How did you like it?
👍👎
fb2epub
Drag & drop your files (not more than 5 at once)