{"product_id":"masterpieces","title":"Masterpieces","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eYou are not at liberty to avenge the pornography industry in this country. We have the censorship laws for that. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMasterpieces opens on three couples having dinner in a restaurant, exchanging sexist jokes. The response is varied: some of them laugh uproariously, some of them uncomfortably, and one is deeply unhappy. Their domestic discussion about the morality of pornography is suddenly amplified a thousand-fold in the next scene in which Rowena is on trial for murder. She had just been to see a 'snuff' film in which a porn actress is actually mutilated and killed on screen, and on her way home is approached threateningly by a man who she ends up pushing under a train because he was harassing her. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe play is the story of Rowena's journey, through seeing a porn magazine for the first time to a thwarted attempt to help an unhappy prostitute, from uncomfortable laughter to radical and disgusted protest at female subjugation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eMasterpieces \u003c\/i\u003eis an angry and defiant play, first staged in 1983, at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, before transferring to the Royal Court Theatre, London. It earned Daniels a London Theatre Critics Award for Most Promising Playwright. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis edition introduces Sarah Daniels into the Modern Classics series and features an introduction by Elaine Aston, Professor of Contemporary Performance at Lancaster University.","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48833508999373,"sku":"9781474218061","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/1529\/9533\/files\/imageloader_a137c738-ec46-468c-801d-586ae1eaa5fd.jpg?v=1790887472","url":"https:\/\/booksatmidnight.com\/products\/masterpieces","provider":"Books At Midnight","version":"1.0","type":"link"}