The Fastest Clock in the Universe (Modern Plays)

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2009
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It's Cougar's birthday. He's having a party. And the gift he'd kill for is youth...In a strange room in East London the party preparations are under way. Everything has been planned to the last detail. Surely nothing can go wrong? After all, there's the specially made birthday cake, the specially written cards, the specially chosen guest of honour...and a very, very sharp knife. Philip Ridley's edgy and provocative drama caused a sensation when it premiered at Hampstead Theatre in 1992, winning the Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Newcomer to the Stage and the Meyer Whitworth Prize. It is now regarded as a contemporary classic. 'A bit like a ride on a ghost train...you find yourself shuddering with shock and laughing uproariously...horror has rarely been so much fun' Daily Telegraph 'Scorchingly nasty...fingers an age and its icons with terrifying accuracy' Guardian

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It's Cougar's birthday. He's having a party. And the gift he'd kill for is youth...In a strange room in East London the party preparations are under way. Everything has been planned to the last detail. Surely nothing can go wrong? After all, there's the specially made birthday cake, the specially written cards, the specially chosen guest of honour...and a very, very sharp knife. Philip Ridley's edgy and provocative drama caused a sensation when it premiered at Hampstead Theatre in 1992, winning the Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Newcomer to the Stage and the Meyer Whitworth Prize. It is now regarded as a contemporary classic. 'A bit like a ride on a ghost train...you find yourself shuddering with shock and laughing uproariously...horror has rarely been so much fun' Daily Telegraph 'Scorchingly nasty...fingers an age and its icons with terrifying accuracy' Guardian

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 112
Publisher: Methuen Drama
Published: 17 Sep 2009
ISBN 10: 1408126710
ISBN 13: 9781408126714
Book Overview: Multi-award-winning play, whose accolades include:Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Newcomer to the Stage and the Meyer Whitworth Prize. Philip Ridley is an important writer who enjoys both critical acclaim and a cult following due to his unique, dark voice and controversial themes. Ridley has won both the Evening Standard's Most Promising Newcomer to British Film and Most Promising Playwright Awards and is the only person ever to receive both prizes. Publication coincided with a new, high profile production at Hampstead Theatre 17 Sept - 17 Oct 2009.

Media Reviews

'Just like its antihero Cougar Glass, for whom every birthday is his 19th, Ridley's play, first produced in 1992, is for ever young, muscled and glowing, exuding something cattle-prod-electrifying.' Lyn Gardner, Guardian, 23.9.09 'Ridley's writing has a hopefulness that counteracts its harshness. It's wonky, uncomfortable, and rewards your patience.' Dominic Maxwell, The Times, 24.9.09 'A BARBARIC beauty is the term that describes Philip Ridley's work - a rich combination of menace and poetic nuance' Paul Callan, Daily Express, 25.9.09 'Ridley's writing is full of gleeful, incantatory menace' Robert Shore, Metro (London), 28.9.09

Author Bio

Philip Ridley was born in the East End of London where he still lives and works. As well plays for young people and the highly acclaimed screenplay for the The Krays feature film, his plays for adults include The Pitchfork Disney, Leaves of Glass, Piranha Heights and the highly controversial Mercury Fur.