Noir - Modern Plays Author:Peter Straughan A new play by the writer of the hit comedy Bones published to tie in with the production at Newcastle Playhouse in May 2002 — George is on the hunt for the man who is seducing his wife Ruth, a lecturer in film noir at the University. Alison, an adult chat-line operator tells her shrink a dream that she was shot in the woods by her father, Howard,... more » who the Reverend Lang happens to suspect of stealing £20,000 from the church accounts. When Morris, Ruth's seducer, turns up as a waiter in a Chinese restaurant, things take a sinister turn for the worse. NOIR is a dark comedy of desire, dreams and coincidental disappearances. It was co-produced by the Live Theatre and Northern Stage Enemble and premiered at Newcastle Playhouse in May 2002.Praise for Peter Straughan's previous play BONES: "cracking uproarious your reviewer came perilously close to becoming incontinent with laughter hilarious Hugely entertaining" Daily Telegraph
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