Cast: 4f 3m
Amateur rights performance fee: £85 per performance (plus VAT where applicable)
12 Mar 2015Size: 198mm x 129mm
12 Mar 2015Size: 297mm x 210mm
19 Mar 2015
Rules for Living
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Everyone creates their own coping strategies or rules for living. But what happens when an extended family gathers in the kitchen for a traditional Christmas and they each follow those rules, rigidly?
As long-held mechanisms for survival are laid bare, even Mum, who's been preparing this lunch since last January, becomes embroiled. Time-honoured rivalries and resentments will out. Accusations fly, relationships deconstruct, the rules take over.
In Sam Holcroft's theatrically playful, dark comedy the instructions are there for all to see, audience included - so there's really no place to hide.
Rules for Living premiered at the National Theatre, London, in March 2015.
This play is also available as an A4 Edition. With spiral binding, a larger print size and additional space for notes, this format is ideal for directors, stage managers, actors and others to use in rehearsal and production.
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'[Rules for Living] revels in the conventions of traditional domestic comedy, but then ups the ante ingeniously by playfully showing us the rules by which each of the characters live and their destructive patterns of behaviour'
Guardian'Bitingly funny and sharply observed'
Exeunt Magazine'Anarchically effective'
The Stage'Horribly funny'
The TimesCast: 4f 3m
Amateur rights performance fee: £85 per performance (plus VAT where applicable)
12 Mar 2015Size: 198mm x 129mm
12 Mar 2015Size: 297mm x 210mm
19 Mar 2015