Has anyone seen or read this play? A recent discovery for me, I see it dates from 2001. The description at the bottom here is from http://www.oberonbooks.com.
According to http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsG/gearing-nigel.html it's, intriguingly, a two-hander, for a man and a woman. (I'm kind of hoping Our Man DOESN'T figure in it, given some of the intimations in Chelsea Hotel No.2!)
Oh, and while I'm here, has anyone read Patrick McCabe's early novel 'Music on Clinton Street' (long out of print, apparently)?
JANIS IN THE CHELSEA, ELGAR'S TENTH MUSE, MEETING MR WILDE
Nigel Gearing
ISBN 1840021616 | £9.99 | PaperBack | In Print |
Is public adulation always accompanied by private disappointment? Is creative fulfilment necessarily at odds with personal happiness? What is the price of fame? In these three biographical scenarios - about Janis Joplin, Edward Elgar and Oscar Wilde repectively - Nigel Gearing explores the often droll disparity between the satisfying structures we call Art and the infinitely more messy ‘rag-and-bone shop of the heart.’ Cast sizes are 2, 12+, and 3.
Nigel Gearing's play 'Janis in the Chelsea'
Re: Nigel Gearing's play 'Janis in the Chelsea'
The answer seems to be no on both counts! Will just have to fork out my own money, it seems, to scratch this particular itch.
(Did I really post in this section of the forum? I'm sure I was in Comments & Questions originally. Anyway, ... )
(Did I really post in this section of the forum? I'm sure I was in Comments & Questions originally. Anyway, ... )