{"product_id":"9781780013282","title":"The Girlfriend Experience (NHB Modern Plays)","description":"\u003cp\u003eA true-life play about friendship, heartbreak and business enterprise... in a seaside brothel.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTessa has set up a business: a brothel where mature women specialise in offering the 'Girlfriend Experience', a surprisingly caring and sympathetic service.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAs 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?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Girlfriend Experience\u003c\/i\u003e continues the verbatim-theatre technique Alecky Blythe developed in \u003ci\u003eCome Out Eli\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCruising\u003c\/i\u003e. The play is created entirely from conversations recorded inside an actual brothel, edited and replicated on stage in all their uncanny verisimilitude.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'funny, touching and absolutely filthy... a hugely entertaining eye-opener of a show' - \u003ci\u003eTelegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'poignant, sometimes disturbing, often riotously funny' - \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'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?' - \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hern, Nick Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47152228237552,"sku":"9781780013282","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781780013282_p0.jpg?v=1763711268","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781780013282","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}