Publisher Description

A smart, funny play about love, friendship and growing up, from the author of WINK and Fury.Remember your best friend? No, the other one. The one that liked to lie. Maybe it's time they 'fessed up. Maybe Doll and Ted should start telling the truth.  Doll is on the mic, Ted is on backing vocals. Set to the greatest love songs of all time, this is what happens when the lights come on, you're singing your heart out to Celine Dion, you've been sick on your shoes, and you realise you might just have to grow up.Phoebe Eclair-Powell's Epic Love and Pop Songs was first performed at the Pleasance Dome during the 2016 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.'Phoebe Eclair-Powell comfortably rivals Juno writer Diablo Cody's ear for a witty turn of phrase... a funny, engaging story of high school misadventure'— Scotsman

Author Biography

Phoebe Eclair-Powell is a writer from South East London.Her plays include: Shed: Exploded View (Royal Exchange, Manchester, 2024); Dorian, adapted with Owen Horsley from Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray (Reading Rep Theatre, 2021); Harm (Bush Theatre, 2021); Epic Love and Pop Songs (Pleasance, Edinburgh, 2016); Fury (Soho Theatre, 2016); WINK (Theatre503, 2015); One Under (Pleasance Below); Mrs Spine (OUTLINES at the Old Red Lion); Bangin' Wolves (Courting Drama at the Bush Upstairs, published by Playdead Press, later with Poleroid Theatre for Wilderness Festival); two rapid write response pieces, Coal Eaters and Glass Hands (Theatre503); The Box (Theatre Delicatessen SPACED festival and Latitude Festival); Elephant and My Castle (SALT Theatre at Southwark Playhouse); CARE (Miniaturists at the Arcola).She was the overall winner of the 2019 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting, for her play Shed: Exploded View. Fury was a finalist for the 2015 Verity Bargate Award, and the winner of the Soho Theatre Young Writers' Award.

Review

'Phoebe Eclair-Powell comfortably rivals Juno writer Diablo Cody's ear for a witty turn of phrase... a funny, engaging story of high school misadventure' * Scotsman *

Long Description

A smart, funny play about love, friendship and growing up, from the author of WINK and Fury. Remember your best friend? No, the other one. The one that liked to lie. Maybe it's time they 'fessed up. Maybe Doll and Ted should start telling the truth. Doll is on the mic, Ted is on backing vocals. Set to the greatest love songs of all time, this is what happens when the lights come on, you're singing your heart out to Celine Dion, you've been sick on your shoes, and you realise you might just have to grow up. Phoebe Eclair-Powell's Epic Love and Pop Songs was first performed at the Pleasance Dome during the 2016 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Review Quote

'Phoebe Eclair-Powell comfortably rivals Juno writer Diablo Cody's ear for a witty turn of phrase... a funny, engaging story of high school misadventure'

Competing Titles

Solid Life of Sugar Water Jack Thorne 9781848425132 18.95 Nick Hern Books 03/29/2016 47

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