About the writer
Jim Cartwright
"After writing Road, writing was never the same again".
ROAD represented the theatrical debut of Jim Cartwright, who was born in Lancashire. Described by the Sunday times as a "writer of outstanding talent", ROAD was a groundbreaking and influential play and was first performed in 1986. It won the Samuel Beckett Award in 1988, Drama Magazines Best New Play award, joint winner of The Plays and Players Award and The George Devine Award. The play launched his reputation as one of the country's most eloquent, radical playwrights and ROAD is now considered a modern classic.
Cartwright was overwhelmed by the response to ROAD. "It was a wild time. Suddenly I was a writer. I wasn't sure what to do. I had no discipline. It wasn't as if I'd written lots of other plays. There was only ROAD. I was caught up in a whirlwind of excitement. If I hadn't gone back up north, I'd have gone off the rails…" Guardian 1999.
After the great success of ROAD, Cartwright has gone on to write many more critically acclaimed plays. BED, 1989, TWO (1989), I LICKED A SLAG'S DEODERENT (1996) PRIZE NIGHT (1999), HARD FRUIT (2000), THE RISE AND FALL OF LITTLE VOICE (1992) Which won The Evening Standard Award for Best Comedy in 1992 and The Oliver Award for Best Comedy in 1993. The Play was then made into the successful film LITTLE VOICE in 1996. More of his plays have also been transferred to the screen. Including; ROAD (BBC 1987) winner of the Golden Nymph Award for Best Film; VROOM (Channel 4, 1988), WEDDED (BBC, 1990); BED (BBC, 1994) and two films directed by Danny Boyle entitled STRUMPET and VACUMING COMPLETELY NUDE IN PARIDISE in 2001.
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