Damaged Language
Collection Description
This collection includes four radio plays. LANGUAGES SPOKEN HERE: A displaced American translator, Michael Milick, meets a Polish writer exiled in London to discuss translating one of his novels into English, but all is not as it appears. EATING WORDS: Two very different old friends, one a British novelist, the other an American novelist, meet for an uninhibited lunch where they bare the raw emotional content behind their latest publications. ADVICE TO EASTERN EUROPE: A comedy set at that epicenter of misunderstandings in 1990, just a year after the Berlin Wall was opened up and as its slow demolition was underway, and a year after the “Velvet Revolution” in Czechoslovakia. THE AMERICAN WIFE: To the Englishman Harry, Thursday may be a stupid day to have a holiday, but for his wife, Anne, in her eighth month of pregnancy and third year in London, a Thanksgiving dinner is a slightly desperate way to bring America to England. After three years she wants to go home.
Plays in This Collection
- Reviews
- About the Author(s)
- About the Book
- Special Notes
Press Quotes
LANGUAGES SPOKEN HERE
Giles Cooper Award winner
“A morally ambiguous comedy … an American in London thinks he’s translating a novel by a penniless Polish émigré, only to find, after befriending and patronizing him, that the Pole has ditched his benefactor for another hack … True and funny as well.” —Paul Ferris, The Observer
“A neat, beautifully written, serious comedy about translation, exile and betrayal — one of the very best on Radio 3 last year.” —Nigel Andrews, The Listener
“A rare sort of treat … a very funny play, delicate in its touches, but sharp as a needle.” —Gillian Reynolds, The Daily Telegraph
EATING WORDS
Giles Cooper Award winner
“Totally enthralling … Richard Nelson is God’s gift (or at least America’s) to English radio drama.” —Nigel Andrews, The Listener
“A thoroughly absorbing account of two writers on a drunken tour of London.” —Plays and Players
ADVICE TO EASTERN EUROPE
“A masterly short play — a post-Cold War romance that is witty [and] technically bold — examines how one woman’s Utopia may be another person’s capitalist nightmare.” —Quentin Curtis, The Independent on Sunday
THE AMERICAN WIFE
“A reminder that Nelson is the sharpest observer around of the gulf separating Britain and America.” —Michael Billington, The Guardian
Book Information
Publisher | BPPI |
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Publication Date | 3/18/2019 |
Pages | 186 |
ISBN | 9780881458213 |
Special Notes
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