Book description
Mongrel Island is a dazzlingly powerful and dreamlike comic play. Marie
is losing herself in her grey office existence, trapped by endless piles
of paperwork and the same people saying the same things every single
day. But as she is forced to work later and later into the night, she
discovers a deeply strange twilight world where a new possibility for
rescuing her sanity is illuminated by the fluorescent office lights.
Commissioned by Soho Theatre and written by up and coming writer Ed
Harris, Mongrel Island explores the mind and memory, offering a
perspective of how the workplace can strip away our humanity. Combining
madcap, surreal humour with an indictment of the corporate world's
subjugation of individualism, Mongrel Island is a bittersweet, touching
and darkly humourous play. Ed Harris is a Brighton-based playwright
and poet. His stage plays include Never Ever After (Chalkfoot Theatre
Arts, shortlisted for the 2008 Meyer-Whitworth Award), Lucy (Academy of
Creative Training/NYT) and The Cow Play (UK tour, Squaremoon/Farnham
Maltings). For radio, Ed has written numerous critically-acclaimed plays
for BBC Radio 4 in recent years, and he was shortlisted for the
Tinniswood Award in 2010 for The Moment You Feel It. His first radio
series will be broadcast in 2012.
