Philip Ridley's great breakthrough work, reissued as part of Methuen Drama's genre-defining series, Modern Classics with a new introduction by Aleks Sierz.
Philip Ridley is a contemporary artist, poet, novelist, film-maker and one of the country's most celebrated living playwrights. Ridley has been described as 'probably a genius' (Time Out) and 'the best British playwright of the last 20 years' (Aleks Sierz, author of In-Yer-Face Theatre). His plays include Ghost From A Perfect Place, Mercury Fur, The Fastest Clock in the Universe, and Vincent River.
It's one hell of a play, Philip Ridley's The Pitchfork Disney . . .
There's a deep artistry here and a searing vividness of imagination
that leaves audiences shocked and subtly changed.
*Scotsman*
A drama that defined the era of "in-yer-face" theatre.
*Evening Standard*
Ridley's play, with its surreal fantasies, has an edgy, alarming
potency of its own, the writing unfettered by any expectations of
how a play should be.
*Guardian*
Flamboyantly grisly first play . . . it blazed a trail for the edgy
style that the critic Aleks Sierz dubbed "in-yer-face theatre" . .
. in its provocative poeticism, in its mixture of the dreamlike and
the dangerous . . . it fed into later works by Jez Butterworth,
Mark Ravenhill, Sarah Kane and Anthony Neilson . . . a show that
both depicts and deconstructs danger
*The Times*
A cornerstone of the 'in yer face' theatre movement . . .
Trauma-riven denial glints darkly in the dank, soiled poetry of
Ridley's prose.
*Stage*
Unsettling and gripping
*Sunday Times*
A portal through which we access long-suppressed childhood fears
from which we emerge with a ghost-train passenger's sense of
survival.
*Jewish Chronicle*
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