"Daringly surreal and innovatively executed" ~ Sarah Bloomer, Whatsonstage. One Hand Clapping is the story of Janet and Howard Shirley, living a dreary life in the dreary fictional northern city of Bradcaster. She's quite happy working at the supermarket, cooking for her husband three times a day and watching quiz shows in the eveningīut once Howard unleashes his photographic brain on the world, the once modest used-car salesman can't seem to stop!Īnd what he sees as the logical conclusion to his success isn't something Janet can agree to. While the orchestra played a march the graduates went up in single file and were handed their beribboned rolls of parchment. The children may wish to clap a partner’s hands while singing.
Invite them to clap their hands to the beat and use untuned percussion to create a happy feeling. Janet doesn't want their lives to change that much Ksika One Hand Clapping autorstwa Burgess Anthony, dostpna w Sklepie EMPIK.COM w cenie 63,15 z. Ask the children to sing this song with a swing. It presents average couple Janet and Howard whose lives begin to unravel when Howard's photographic memory helps win him a game-show fortune
Published in 1961 - a year before A Clockwork Orange - One Hand Clapping is a darkly comic satire of drab English consumerismĪnd it's now been adapted for the stage by Lucia Cox in an edition published to coincide with the US premiere at the Brits Off-Broadway Festival, May 2015
Because there may not be any future to bother about, you know. The novel was intended as an indictment of what Burgess saw as the degradation of contemporary Western education and culture. : One Hand Clapping: Scarce with jacket Book has mild to moderate smoke damage, with some light toning to the jacket and a pale smoke odor. "Sometimes when I'm at work and waiting for customers I think about the two of us living like kings and not bothering about the future. One Hand Clapping is a 1961 work by Anthony Burgess published originally under the pseudonym Joseph Kell in the UK.
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