Incomplete and random acts of kindness
By: David Eldridge
Publisher: Methuen Drama
Published: 2005
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 89
Description: Eldridge's hero, Joey, is a man in crisis. He has suffered some kind of breakdown after his mother's death and seems at odds with himself and the world. He edgily teaches private pupils, has walked out on his partner Kate, quarrels with his father who has shacked up with a new woman and has an obsession with Motown singer Marvin Gaye, who was killed by his own father in 1984. And Joey's sense of desperation is intensified when one of his pupils, Trevor, is fatally stabbed - an act for which he feels an ungovernable sense of responsibility. The play premiered at London's Royal Court Theatre in May 2005.