TEMPORARY ORDER DELAYS

We’re currently experiencing temporary disruption to the availability of some titles as we move all of our books to a new warehouse, which means it may take longer than normal for your order to reach you. Click here for more information.

Rodney's Wife
Paperback, 288 pages ISBN: 9781559362788Publication Date:
1 Nov 2007
Size: 215mm x 136mm£19.99
First Staged:
Williamstown Theatre Festival, USA, 2004

Rodney's Wife

By Richard Nelson

Paperback £19.99

A study in dissolution by a leading American playwright who has written prolifically, and with fine detail, on the perplexities of everyday living.

A fading American actor in Rome for the filming of a 1960s spaghetti Western gathers with family and friends at a rented villa. Over the course of one booze-soaked summer night, jealousies and secrets are revealed that crumble the foundations of their relationships.

Inspired by Euripides, this is a tragedy of exiles who continue to need each other even as they push one another away.

Press Quotes

'A sharply etched study of dislocation, loneliness and sexual betrayal'

New York Times

'Nelson is a master of the quiet detail'

Newsday
Paperback,288 pages ISBN: 9781559362788Publication Date:
1 Nov 2007
Size: 215mm x 136mm£19.99

Also by Richard Nelson:

The Apple Family
Three Sisters
Ivanov
A Month in the Country
The Seagull
Strictly Dishonourable and other lost American plays
The Inspector
The Gabriels
Molière, or The Cabal of Hypocrites & Don Quixote
Illyria
The Cherry Orchard

Go to author page...

Similar Titles
A play about the desperate cases lurking unsuccessfully on the fringes of the movie world.
A second collection of work by the award-winning Latino comedy trio.
Four plays - spanning a decade - from the leading Chinese-American playwright.
Two companion pieces spanning 100 years in the lives of African American women.
A sweeping historical saga told with lyricism and power, The Liquid Plain brings to life a group of people w...