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Crooked Wood

Crooked Wood

September 2009
Trade Paperback · 96 Pages
$18.95 U.S. · $22.00 CAN
ISBN 9781840028799
Oberon Books

 

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Description

Based on the television film Number 27 by Michael Palin

First shown on the BBC, 23rd October 1988

Crooked Wood is a black comedy about ruthless property developers cashing in on the property demand around the London Olympic site, who then find themselves faced with an elderly lady refusing to move out from the last remaining house on their prime site. Andrew Veitch, the smooth-talking iron fist of Golden Future, cannot budge the intrepid Miss Barwick whose conviction that Veitch has come to restore her rotting stairs and floorboards and mend the holes in the roof generates the play's soft-centred humour.