A mad world, my masters (Methuen's new theatrescripts ; no. 9)

Keeffe, Barrie

EYRE METHUEN

Gimme Shelter: Gem, Gotcha, Getaway (A Methuen Modern Play)

Methuen Publishing, Ltd.

Clean, bright used copy with tight binding. NEVER a library book./lh

LONG GOOD FRIDAY (Methuen Screenplay)

Humor & Entertainment

Heinemann

MY GIRL (Methuen New Theatrescript)

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Written by a chronicler of working-class life and author of "The Long Good Friday", these plays include the trilogy entitled "Gimme Shelter", "Not Fade Away", about an old woman on the run from a nursing home, and "Wild Justice", in which a crazed father attempts to revenge the death of his son.

WILD JUSTICE NOT FADE AWAY

The first collected edition of darkly humorous plays from the author of the classic screenplay The Long Good Friday.

Keeffe Plays: 1 (Methuen Contemporary Dramatists)

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

Methuen Drama

''You see, what this country needs is a strong government to sort out the laws, bring order" Election night 1979: the sus laws made it legal for police to stop and search anyone - purely on suspicion. Two detectives on the graveyard shift in an East London police station place bets on which party will win. A black man is picked up, accused of his wife's murder. He is incensed, believing that he'll be fodder for an incoming government keen to flex its law-and-order muscles. 
 A powerful, politicised cry against the still-current threat of institutional racism, Keeffe uncompromisingly depicts a corrupt world which looks all too familiar today. Set on the eve of the Thatcher victory, this new edition of Keeffe's classic, harrowing play coincides with the general election of 2010, and asks what's changed. Sus is a shocking and disturbing drama which protests against the rise of the right-wing, the infringement of civil liberties and the casual humiliation which the police inflict on their prisoners. Exploring the abuse of power and racism, Sus is a resonant, socially charged and powerful play, as relevant today as it was in 1979.

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