{"product_id":"9781780018409","title":"The Evil Doers (NHB Modern Plays)","description":"\u003cp\u003eTracky is a teenage heavy metal fan with life issues. Her mother's an alcoholic. Her father's a taxi driver with delusions of becoming a tour guide. Now they're being pursued by a loanshark. None of this is going to end well...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChris Hannan's play \u003cem\u003eThe Evil Doers\u003c\/em\u003e is a chaotic, violent, comic odyssey through the dismal streets of 1980s Glasgow.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'An alcoholic is not someone who drinks too much; an alcoholic is an emotional whirlwind, a destructive force which tears up everything in his or her path, and then passes, disappears, utterly unaware of the devastation caused. \u003cem\u003eThe Evil Doers\u003c\/em\u003e is about the whirlwind and those in its path.' Chris Hannan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst produced at the Bush Theatre, London, in August 1990, \u003cem\u003eThe Evil Doers\u003c\/em\u003e won a Time Out Award, a Plays and Players' Critics Award, and that year's Charrington London Fringe Award for Best Play.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Uproariously funny... Hannan has a sharp eye for flaky characterisation and a wonderful ear for quirky vernacular dialogue, a sawn-off language of violent verbal collisions, like a pile-up on the motorway… We never quite stop laughing but it becomes increasingly painful to do so, and I suspect that no-one will be able to watch the bruising final scene without physically flinching.' \u003cem\u003eTelegraph\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A gorgeously enjoyable play. As in the comedies of Ben Jonson and Middleton, the hunt for money gives the play its structure. Like Jonson and Middleton also, Hannan owns a penetrating eye for tricks of character and an equally sharp ear... A world of uncertain egos where the characters bounce off each other like bumper cars, powered by sources beyond their control.' \u003cem\u003eThe Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A vicious and idiosyncratic Glaswegian city comedy.' \u003cem\u003eObserver\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'The verve, the iconoclastic humour is tremendous, each character brilliantly personalised.' \u003cem\u003eHerald\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Extraordinary free-ranging vitality.' \u003cem\u003eIndependent on Sunday\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'No plot description can explain the beauty, warmth and poetic energy of Chris Hannan's \u003cem\u003eThe Evil Doers\u003c\/em\u003e. In its generosity of attention, its expansiveness and richness, in the scale of its emotional intensities, it is as broad as a city itself. It is a modern masterpiece.' \u003cem\u003eEncore Theatre Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hern, Nick Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47131345912048,"sku":"9781780018409","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781780018409_p0.jpg?v=1763710937","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781780018409","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}