Synopsis

One Hand Clapping

One Hand Clapping $15.99

Lucia Cox from Anthony Burgess

Published by Methuen

2 Male 1 Female

"Sometimes when I'm at work and waiting for customers I think about the two of us living like kings and not bothering about the future. Because there may not be any future to bother about, you know. Not for anybody, one of these days. And it's a wicked world"

Published in 1961 - a year before A Clockwork Orange - One Hand Clapping is a darkly comic satire of drab English consumerism

And it's now been adapted for the stage by Lucia Cox in an edition published to coincide with the US premiere at the Brits Off-Broadway Festival, May 2015

It presents average couple Janet and Howard whose lives begin to unravel when Howard's photographic memory helps win him a game-show fortune

Janet doesn't want their lives to change that much

She's quite happy working at the supermarket, cooking for her husband three times a day and watching quiz shows in the evening

But once Howard unleashes his photographic brain on the world, the once modest used-car salesman can't seem to stop!

And what he sees as the logical conclusion to his success isn't something Janet can agree to ...

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"Daringly surreal and innovatively executed" ~ Sarah Bloomer, Whatsonstage.com

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