Nicholas Wright

Cressida (NHB Modern Plays)

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A comedy drama set in the seedily glamorous world of 17th-century London theatre.
John Shank is an actor, talent-scout and trainer of boy players in the 1630s, when women's roles are still played by precocious boys. Up to his eyes in debt, Shank's only hope of escaping destitution is an unpromising 14-year-old would-be, Stephen Hammerton. Can he train up Stephen to be the new star of the London stage?
'Delightful, light-minded comedy of manners' – Evening Standard
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79 printed pages
Original publication
2014
Publication year
2014
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  • adamhalcro655has quoted8 years ago
    I still get letters every day. Not just from men. Everyone thinks I’m just a boyish bugger. That’s not true. I see women as well. They’re even stranger than the men are. They ask me to supper and want me to bring my gown and make-up.
  • adamhalcro655has quoted8 years ago
    I don’t know. We just do. It’s like a baby falling down a well. You’ve got its foot in your hand and you don’t let go. So you’re not one thing exactly. You’re half man, half boy. That’s when you find you can really do it. And it’s amazing. It’s better than beer or wine. It’s better than smoking. It’s like flying. It’s like finding that wings have suddenly sprouted from your shoulders. You come on stage and everything happens the way it’s meant to. And nobody in the audience looks at anyone else. Because you live in a sort of stolen time that they can’t get to. Except through you. And it could disappear at any moment. You’re like a soldier on the eve of battle. Every night could be your last. And everyone wants to be that special person on that special night. That’s my theory. That’s why they grab old Jhon, J, H, O, N, and give him notes for us. It’s why they hang about at the Actors’ Door.
  • adamhalcro655has quoted8 years ago
    When you get older. When other boys get tall and clumsy. And their voices drop two million pegs. We don’t do that. We hang on.
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