- Paperback: 80 pages
- Publisher: Faber and Faber; 2nd Revised edition edition (5 Feb 1979)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0571049869
- ISBN-13: 978-0571049868
- Product Dimensions: 18.8 x 12.4 x 0.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 124,430 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'The setting is a schoolroom near Manchester where an evening class of budding comics congregate for a final briefing from their tutor before facing an agent's man from London. Telling jokes for money offers an escape from the building site or the milk round. But the humour is a deadly serious business that also involves anger, pain and truth.' Financial Times 'Trevor Griffiths has not shown his brilliance as a writer more clearly than in Comedians.' Daily Telegraph
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Not so Funny,
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This review is from: Comedians (Paperback)
I have been discussing this text with students for many years, during which time comedy has changed from stereotyping to alternative to pc and still there is something relevant. It is about comedy, initially, but it is also about moral values - trust and loyalty and, as you would expect from Griffiths, it is a political play. Operating over real time we familiarise ourselves with a diversity of desperate characters during act one as they warm up for their comedic performances in act two. Our expectations of loyalty and betrayal are partially confounded during act two so Griffiths keeps our interest high, especially by leaving Price's startling act until the end. He belongs to no one and indeed student and teacher roles are reversed as he points out Waters' own betrayal by forgetting his working class roots. It is a powerful drama, even today and reminds us that the truth whether in comedy, politics or our own personal ideology is the best weapon we have to improve society.
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4.0 out of 5 stars (1 customer review) 2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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A highly politically charged play,
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This review is from: Comedians (Paperback)
Although the reader may pick up this play expecting a comedy, the various scattered jokes do little to hide the political undercurrent of the story. Set in mid 1980's England we see a few hours in the lives of several up and coming comedians, most of whom see comedy as the only way out of the depressing lives they lead. One of the joys of reading this play is seeing Griffith's own political preference coming through, and although the play finishes on a rather abstract, some say surreal, note the Griffiths general meaning is not hard to understand. Although the jokes are "classics" (read - 80's and outdated), each of the characters is well crafted and have very complex, sometimes subtle, relationships with each other.
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