New Labour

The adventures and misadventures of a group of graduates working in a North London call centre.

About the author

Marcelo Dos Santos is an award-winning playwright and scriptwriter.

His plays include: Backstairs Billy (West End, 2023); Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible Is Going To Happen (Summerhall, Edinburgh, 2022 and Bush Theatre, London, 2023); New Labour (RADA, 2014, directed by Richard Wilson); Lionboy adapted from the novels by Zizou Corder (Complicite, 2013 and 2014); Lovers Walk (Southwark Playhouse); and Cheer Up, This is Only the Beginning (Liverpool Playhouse).

He was named Most Promising Playwright at the 2024 Critics' Circle Theatre Awards for Backstairs Billy.

Summary

A comedy drama about being young, working in a shit job, living in debt, and all the funny and sad things you do to cope.

Product details

• Authors: Marcelo Dos Santos, Dos Santos Marcelo
• Publisher: Hern, Nick Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2017
• EAN: 9781848426047
• ISBN: 978-1-84842-604-7
• No. of pages: 120
• Series: NHB Modern Plays
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, DRAMA / General, Plays, Playscripts, theatre; plays; modern drama; drama