{"product_id":"9781780014012","title":"Liz Lochhead Five Plays (NHB Modern Plays)","description":"\u003cp\u003eFive plays from the the makar (national poet) of Scotland, one of the country's best-known (and best-loved) living playwrights.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLiz Lochhead is the author of many highly inventive original plays, adaptations and translations, all crafted with her special blend of the vividly colloquial and the energetically poetic. This volume brings together five of her best original plays ranging over three decades and several, contrasting styles.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHer first play, \u003ci\u003eBlood and Ice\u003c\/i\u003e (1982), is about the creation of Frankenstein, and weaves a spider's web of connections between the literary monster and Mary Shelley's own turbulent life.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe modern classic \u003ci\u003eMary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off\u003c\/i\u003e (1987) retells the familiar tale of enmity between Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots, with Lochhead's own brand of ferocious iconoclasm and boundless wit.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eQuelques Fleurs\u003c\/i\u003e (1991) is a portrait of a marriage, both funny and tragic, and told through interlaced monologues.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe last two plays, \u003ci\u003ePerfect Days\u003c\/i\u003e (1998) and \u003ci\u003eGood Things\u003c\/i\u003e (2004), mark a woman's fear of turning, respectively, forty and fifty. In the first, Barbs, 39, a celebrity hairdresser, determines to do something to drown out the ticking of her biological clock. In the second, Susan, 49, sets out to find love the second (or is it third or fourth?) time round'\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis rich collection of plays carries a new and candid introduction by the author, specially written for the volume.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Funny, feisty, female, full of feeling' Liz Lochhead possesses the deeply Scottish qualities of independence, inquisitiveness and inventiveness' Carol Ann Duffy\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hern, Nick Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47152192618736,"sku":"9781780014012","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781780014012_p0.jpg?v=1769890637","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781780014012","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}