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STEPHEN BERESFORD
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Stephen Beresford trained at RADA and worked as an actor before writing for television and film. His first play, The Last of the Haussmans, was premiered at the National Theatre starring Julie Walters.
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Last Of The Haussmans, The Magistrate, TheLast Of The Haussmans, The
anarchic, feisty but growing old, high society drop-out Judy Haussman remains in spirit with the ashrams of the 1960s while holding court in her dilapidated art Deco house on the Devon coast. My baby's home! Let's wake 'em up! The old rebels, eh? Let's show this younger generation what it's all about! Shall we get naked? after an operation, she's joined by wayward offspring Nick and Libby, sharp-eyed granddaughter Summer, local doctor Peter, and Daniel, a troubled teenager who makes use of the family's crumbling swimming pool. Together they share a few sweltering months as they alternately cling to and flee this louche and chaotic world of all-day drinking, infatuations, long-held resentments, free love and failure. The only thing to be in life is a rebel. Stephen Beresford's The Last of the Haussmans examines the fate of the revolutionary generation and offers a funny, touching and at times savage portrait of a family full of longing that's losing its grip. This house. This summer. I feel as though I've been in a coma for the last god knows how many years. Honestly. and I'm now finally waking up.
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Nick Hern Books, London (2012) >>> 978-1848422520
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With his louche air and a developed taste for smoking, gambling, port and women, it s hard to believe Cis Farringdon is only fourteen. And that's because he isn't. Agatha his mother lopped five years from her true age and his when she married the amiable Posket. The imminent arrival of Cis godfather sends Agatha incognito to the Hôtel des Princes to warn him of her deception. But it's also where her son has cajoled his otherwise staid stepfather into joining him for a binge. High-spirited carousing leads to a police raid and a night of outrageous mishap as the trapped guests make desperate attempts to conceal themselves from the law and from each other. Indignities escalate at court the next day where Posket, the police magistrate, must preside.
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Original Playwright - Arthur W Pinero. Text revisions by Stephen Beresford
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Oberon Books (2012) >>> 978-1849434577
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