Market boy
By: David Eldridge
Contributors: Eldridge, David, 1973-
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London]
Language: eng
Description: There is an art to selling stilettos: learn a good wind-up, the pull of cash, learn drugs, learn sex and run wild with the market monkeys. Persuaded by his mother into getting a job on a shoe-stall, one boy finds he has everything to learn about staying sharp in the ruthless world of Essex traders. 'Market Boy' is a spectacular, savage yarn which brings a market jungle to the stage; a tale about the time Mrs Thatcher said we should embrace the marketplace; a story about losing your innocence and learning to sell. It premiered in 2006 at the National Theatre, London.
Notes: Previously issued in print: in Plays two. London: Methuen Drama, 2012.