Ugly chief /
Eulogy for a Living Soul. This autumn, artist and performer Victoria Melody teams up with her dad, television antique dealer Mike Melody, for her most ambitious show yet. Ugly Chief is a comedy based on true-life events, performed by a real-life father and daughter. In 2013, Mike was diagnosed with...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Oberon Books,
2017.
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| Series: | Oberon modern plays.
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| Summary: | Eulogy for a Living Soul. This autumn, artist and performer Victoria Melody teams up with her dad, television antique dealer Mike Melody, for her most ambitious show yet. Ugly Chief is a comedy based on true-life events, performed by a real-life father and daughter. In 2013, Mike was diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease and given five years to live. Victoria was put in charge of planning the funeral (complete with eulogies, a New Orleans jazz procession and a congregation dressed in Blackpool FC tangerine). But a year later the doctors realized they had misdiagnosed Mike. Victoria and Mike decided to go ahead with the funeral anyway and Victoria went to Port Talbot to train as a funeral director. Ugly Chief plays out the funeral Victoria planned, and the funeral her dad really wanted. It explores the British funeral industry and how we deal with death in modern western society. And it unpicks the complicated relationship with a parent whose opinion you don't always agree with. |
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| Physical Description: | 88 pages : color portrait ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: | 1786823705 9781786823700 |