Synopsis

Who's Afraid of the Booker Prize?

$14.99

Peter Cowlam

Published by New Theatre Publications

5 Male 5 Female

This comedy satire focusses on two main characters - Marshall Zob, a well-known contemporary English novelist, and his agent Cornelius Snell

Zob's main professional frustration is that although he has frequently been shortlisted for the Booker Prize, he has never actually won it

In the course of the play his latest novel, Gimme the Cash, has recently been longlisted for the next Booker Prize

He and Snell fear that Zob won't win it, and may not even get it shortlisted, unless some clever publicity scheme is launched

The best that Snell seems to be able to come up with is a reading from the novel conducted at the South Bank complex, where Snell and his assistant Merle, and Zob and his assistant Wye, all take parts in a part-dramatised reading from the book

However, unbeknown to the other three, Snell has planned for and hatched a stunt of quite a different kind, calculated to bring maximum TV and press coverage to Marshall Zob with his latest book ...

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