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Ugly Chief

Ugly Chief

Melody, Victoria

Paperback

Series: Oberon Modern Plays

Death & DyingPlays

ISBN10: 1786823705
ISBN13: 9781786823700
Publisher: Oberon Books
Published: Oct 31 2017
Pages: 64
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.10 Depth: 8.30
Language: English

In 2013, Mike was diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease and given five years to live. Mike's daughter Victoria was put in charge of planning the funeral. But a year later the doctors realised they had misdiagnosed Mike.

Victoria and Mike decided to go ahead with the funeral anyway and Victoria went to Port Talbot to train as a funeral director. Ugly Chief plays out the funeral Victoria planned, including her experieences of training at a funeral home

Ugly Chief is a comic take on what we want and expect from a funerals and how the deceased might behave if they were actually there to see it. It also explores a father/daughter relationship, and father and daughter reassess their relationship in the very act of making and performing the show (The Guardian).

The publication includes colour photographs from the premiere at Battersea Arts Centre and an interview with Victoria Melody.

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