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Teeth 'n' Smiles
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Tragedy's easy. I pick it up, I sling it off. Like an overcoat. Before the New York Dolls. Before Debbie Harry. Before Kurt Cobain. There was Maggie Frisby. But a rock band's dreams of anarchic rebellion collapse into bitterness and disillusionment. Amidst the wreckage, Maggie tears...
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But a rock band's dreams of anarchic rebellion collapse into bitterness and disillusionment. the voice of Sixties counterculture that refuses to die.
David Hare's trailblazing play premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in 1975. This edition marks its fiftieth-anniversary revival at the Duke of York's Theatre, London, in 2026.
A new edition to mark the fiftieth anniversary of David Hare's trailblazing early play.
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Tragedy's easy. I pick it up, I sling it off. Like an overcoat.
Before the New York Dolls. Before Debbie Harry. Before Kurt Cobain. There was Maggie Frisby. But a rock band's dreams of anarchic rebellion collapse into bitterness and disillusionment. Amidst the wreckage, Maggie tears through the night, fuelled by booze and fury; the voice of Sixties counterculture that refuses to die.
David Hare's trailblazing play premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in 1975. This edition marks its fiftieth-anniversary revival at the Duke of York's Theatre, London, in 2026.
The acid dream is over lezzava good time.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780571404797
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 26 March 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Edition: Main
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 128
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About the Author
David Hare has written nearly forty stage plays and over thirty screenplays for film and television. The plays include Plenty, Pravda (with Howard Brenton), Racing Demon, Skylight, Stuff Happens, The Absence of War, The Judas Kiss, The Red Barn, Beat the Devil, Straight Line Crazy and Grace Pervades. For cinema, he has written The Hours, The Reader and Denial, among others.
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