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Spoonface Steinberg: Directed by Betsan Morris Evans. With Linda Bassett, Ella Jones, Helen McCrory, Becky Simpson. An autistic girl comes to terms with the fact she's dying of Cancer.
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- Drama
- Betsan Morris Evans
- 1998-02
Mar 30, 1998 · Spoonface is seven years old, Jewish, autistic - and terminally ill with cancer. As she tries to come to terms with the meaning of life and death, she draws inspiration from the prisoners in the Nazi concentration camps who died with dignity and their spirit unbowed.
Just once or twice Lucy Hollis makes Spoonface consciously little-girlish in her contact with the audience but this helps when correcting an audience misunderstanding: their applause at what was a false ending—but was this an intentional joke on the director’s part (or even the writer’s)?
May 10, 2001 · The play is an hour-long monologue about Spoonface, a young autistic girl with leukemia. Naturally, she thinks a lot about death. She listens to Maria Callas arias and rhapsodizes with a little...
It is beautiful, thoughtful, sensitive treatment of a very difficult situation. Whatever it costs you to get hold of a copy, its worth it. The music also deepens and supports the story-line and some of the minor characters have practical insights into how to handle events and emotions that will help anyone who listens.
Summaries. An autistic girl comes to terms with the fact she's dying of Cancer. Spoonface was different, even before the cancer. Now after her parents have split up and her mother has a drink problem, her hospital consultant introduces her to opera.
Mar 30, 1998 · Spoonface is seven years old, Jewish, autistic - and terminally ill with cancer. As she tries to come to terms with the meaning of life and death, she draws inspiration from the prisoners in the Nazi concentration camps who died with dignity and their spirit unbowed.
