Raz

Description

Friday night, first thing, the tanning shop, a good nine-minute blaster! Meet Shane, one of the low-paid generation that lives for the weekend while still living at home. Come on the raz with him and his boys as he hits the town for all it's worth - tanned, buffed and blowing his wage packet: a weekend millionaire. Tonight he's in charge, living it large. On Monday, it's back to the grind and he starts all over again. At turns bitingly funny and heartbreaking, Raz takes you on an illuminating rollercoaster of a night out in modern Britain.

Jim Cartwright is an award-winning and internationally acclaimed playwright and screenwriter. His plays are consistently in production, have been translated into over 35 languages, and have been performed in most major theatres of the world, including the West End of London, Royal Court, National Theatre and Broadway. His theatre works include, amongst many others, Road, Bed, Two, The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, and Mobile Phone Show. His extensive television and film work includes Road, Johnny Shakespeare, Vroom, Wedded, and King of the Teds.

A new play by Jim Cartwright . . . is always a treat - even more so when it's a beautifully written monologue . . . Cartwright's rhythmic, rhyming argot vividly describes events * Evening Standard * Clever funny rift for the weekend, a real night on the town. * Guardian * The political passion sends a shockwave through the room * Telegraph * Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood mixed with Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange. * Daily Mail * Beautifully written Monologue Superman for our times * Evening Standard * A club-fuelled, compelling monologue * The Stage * Cartwright, as angrily poetic as ever in this fierce and beautiful new 50 minute monologue * Scotsman * It takes a core drill to the life of young British adulthood. * TVBomb *