How to Tell the Monsters from the Misfits

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Bloomsbury Academic, 2008 - Drama - 95 pages

Two dead dentists covered in lipstick - quite a week for the bumbling Detective Edwards. He gathers together a crack team of police minds to help him solve a case that seems to strike at the very heart of Middle England. But as more and more bodies show up in ever more bizarre circumstances, it's not too long before the crack team begins to, well...crack.
Paul Lucas' new black comedy is one of the most genuinely touching and heart warming plays ever written about murderous mayhem. It opened at the Birmingham Rep in April 2008.

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Amanda Amanda Carrington Anyway bank manager Barker barrel bathroom Bernard White Birmingham Repertory Theatre body Bryony Lavery chaise longue CHLOE cigarette clap of thunder Countermuddlebumbler course crwth dead dentists Deputy Head Detective Edwards door EDWARDS looks EDWARDS takes emu farm emu farmer emu girl emu shit emu woman Esperanto everything exactly eyes forgave fucking Gaylord going grabs greenhouse Hampstead Theatre happy interview language of flowers lighting design Lights fade lipstick little monkey lover Lyric Hammersmith MALCOLM continues MALCOLM nods Maureen Black White Maureen White mean mind minstrel mouth murder near-death experience never nut loaf Opera Paul Lucas photographs piece of paper pink top realise recipe for cheesecake Right Ron Black Ronald Black SCENE Sergeant Thornton Short silence someone sorry sort stair-lift suicide note suppose Thank you Sergeant Theatre Company There's thing THORNTON bursts THORNTON exits vase voice wishing wonder

About the author (2008)

Paul's first play Swamp City was produced by the Birmingham Rep in 1996. The Birmingham Rep also commissioned adn mounted All That Trouble That We Had (May 1999) and The Slight Witch (2000), both directed by Anthony Clark at The Door. His most recent play, The Dice House, was mounted at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, in 2001. He has also written The Iguanodon, a three part series for Radio 4 (broadcast in 1997). He was born in Coventry and curently lives in Cardiff.

Bibliographic information

TitleHow to Tell the Monsters from the Misfits
Oberon Modern Plays
AuthorPaul Lucas
PublisherBloomsbury Academic, 2008
Original fromIndiana University
DigitizedJan 20, 2011
ISBN1840028629, 9781840028621
Length95 pages
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Drama / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Drama / General
  
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