Jack Maggs

You''re a dead man if they find you. Enigmatic ex-convict Jack Maggs returns from Australia to the murky streets of nineteenth-century London and embarks on a quest to find his ''son'' Henry Phipps, who has mysteriously disappeared. Disguised as a footman, he joins the peculiar household of Phipps''s neighbour, Percy Buckle, where he meets Tobias Oates, a young novelist and amateur mesmerist searching for inspiration. Striking a dangerous deal with Oates, Maggs becomes ensnared in a dazzling, distorted world of ambition, secrets and unexpected alliances. Samuel Adamson''s ingenious, wildly entertaining adaptation of Peter Carey''s bestselling novel opened in November 2024, in a production by State Theatre Company South Australia.

Product details

• Authors: Samuel Adamson
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.11.2024
• EAN: 9780571389476
• ISBN: 978-0-571-38947-6
• No. of pages: 104
• Subjects: DRAMA / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / Playwriting, Modern and contemporary plays (c 1900 onwards)