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Road by Jim Cartwright - Notes on the plot and Subject matter of the play.

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Have a little read: ... Road by Jim Cartwright Notes on the plot and Subject matter of the play Under the guidance of the Rum-Soaked, wide-boy, Scullery, the audience is taken on an evening tour of a scruffy, depressed road in a small Lancashire town. Moving from street corner to living room, from bedroom to kitchen, the inhabitants, young and middle aged, are presented, showing their socially and emotionally wretched lives in this sharp, sad but often funny play. Here are people with almost no decent economic prospects living in a soon to be ghost town yet most have enough spirit to resist becoming ghosts themselves. Even the young couple who plan to starve themselves, unable to visualise a future, make their decision with relish, executing a tender dance of death before the fats begins. By the time we follow two women and a pair of brothers to a compulsive drinks-fest in the shell of an abandoned

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