Clockwork
Subtitle: a new play
By: by Laura Poliakoff
Contributors: High Tide Festival Theatre
Publisher: Methuen Drama
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 78
Subjects: Older people; Drama; Conduct of life
Other titles: HighTide Festival Theatre present Clockwork
Description: Shut in a care home away from a world where pensioners steal in order to feed themselves and dreaming of a youth spent in the dingy corner of a seedy club, two lifelong friends are forced to say their goodbyes. When memory is fading and the past is clouded with a lifetime of drink and drugs, what is true and how to live are called into question. Laura Poliakoff's debut play, first presented at the sixth HighTide Festival in Suffolk in 2012, is a powerful call-to-arms for a generation of twenty-year-olds not considering their own old age. How we care for our elderly, where we put them and the sacrifices that are made fuel this often comic yet touching play.