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Hobson's Choice
Hobson's Choice
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Author: Harold Brighouse Publisher: Samuel French Format: Softcover # of Pages: 80 Pub. Date: 2008 ISBN-10: 0573011818 ISBN-13: 9780573011818
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About the Play:
Hobson's Choice is
one of Royal National Theatre of Britain's top 100 plays of the 20th
century.
Hobson's Choice is a full-length comedy by Harold
Brighouse. A shoemaker's daughter sets out to marry and build the
business prospects of her father's seemingly ordinary apprentice.
This classic comedy is part Cinderella, part King Lear, part
Pygmalion, and part Samuel Beckett. It is studied in classrooms
throughout the UK in much the same way The Glass Menagerie is studied
in America.
Hobson's Choice takes place in Salford, a city near
Manchester in northern England at the height of the Industrial
Revolution. Widower Henry Hobson is struggling to handle his three
grown-up daughters, each seeking a husband and an escape from the
family-run boot makers shop. The youngest daughters are anxious to
marry and have eligible suitors who must wait until eldest daughter,
practical-minded Maggie is promised in marriage. Maggie, however has
other plans which include freedom from her father's tyranny, a
business and husband of her own. Her choice: Hobson's shy apprentice
Will Mossop. Through Maggie's determination, they wed, set up their
own shop and within a year, manage to take nearly all of Hobson's
business. In the end, it is Willie who triumphs in this unlikely love
story with a newfound fortitude and deals a resolution that is –
Hobson's Choice.
Hobson's Choice premiered in 1916 at The Gaiety Theatre in
Manchester and it has delighted generations of theatre-goers in many
notable productions and movie-goers in David Lean's famous 1954 film
adaptation.
Cast: 5 women, 7 men
About the Playwright:
Harold Brighouse (1882-1958) was an English playwright
and author whose best known play is Hobson's Choice. He was a
prominent member of a group of dramatists known as the Manchester
School who were active early in the 20th century at Annie Horniman's
Gaiety Theatre in Manchester. Their plays were based on country
tales of Lancashire and on the struggles of working people in the
industrial north of England, and they were noted for their realism.
He is also became a drama critic for the Manchester Guardian.
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