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Description for Spoonface Steinberg
Paperback. This play about faith, love and the meaning of life was first broadcast on Radio Four in 1997 and is now published in this stage version. Series: Modern Plays. Num Pages: 48 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 135 x 4. Weight in Grams: 78.
An award-winning play which took the nation by storm when first heard on BBC Radio 4, now in a new stage version Lee Hall's extraordinary, award-winning play about faith, love and the meaning of life was first broadcast on Radio Four in 1997 to unprecedented acclaim. A monologue by an exceptional autistic seven-year-old girl called Spoonface Steinberg, who is dying of cancer, touched the hearts of all who heard it. It is a moving, funny and exhilarating piece of drama. The radio version was immediately repeated due to popular demand and a cassette of the play was rushed into shops ... Read more
An award-winning play which took the nation by storm when first heard on BBC Radio 4, now in a new stage version Lee Hall's extraordinary, award-winning play about faith, love and the meaning of life was first broadcast on Radio Four in 1997 to unprecedented acclaim. A monologue by an exceptional autistic seven-year-old girl called Spoonface Steinberg, who is dying of cancer, touched the hearts of all who heard it. It is a moving, funny and exhilarating piece of drama. The radio version was immediately repeated due to popular demand and a cassette of the play was rushed into shops ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
48
Condition
New
Series
Modern Plays
Number of Pages
48
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780413748706
SKU
V9780413748706
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-1
About Lee Hall
After his acclaimed play Spoonface Steinberg (1997), Lee Hall was appointed Writer in Residence at the RSC 1999/2000 under the Pearson Playwrights Scheme Award. Other plays include Cooking with Elvis (2000, Edinburgh Festival and West End) and an adaptation of Goldoni's The Servant with Two Masters (RSC 1999). He also wrote the screenplay to the film Billy Elliot (1999), receiving ... Read more
Reviews for Spoonface Steinberg
Hall uses the oddball honesty and eccentric speech patterns of savant autism to explore immense philosophical and aesthetic themes, without losing the earthy practicality of a child going through medical and family troubles ... he links her small individual experience to all great tragedies in art and history, to the Holocaust and the indomitable universal spark of life.
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