About the Author:
James Graham won the Catherine Johnson Award for the Best Play 2007 for Eden's Empire. His previous plays include Albert's Boy (recipient of a Pearson Playwriting Bursary) Little Madam (Finborough), Tory Boyz (Soho Theatre) and suddenlossofdignity.com (Bush). He is writer-in-residence at the Finborough Theatre.
Review:
"A brilliantly pacey and culturally penetrating new comedy by James Graham ... It induces some of the exhilaration you get from the headlong knowingness of the best TV comedy, such as The Thick of It, while having the strong metaphoric framework of inspired theatre ... Part of the great pleasure of the piece lies in the way the superb cast fly with dialogue that has its ear to the future. By these means and metaphors, the very talented author manages to pack in unpretentiously many of our current preoccupations." Paul Taylor, Independent, 2.2.10 "The Whisky Taster at the Bush Theatre displays a superb gift for comic dialogue by playwright James Graham. It is charming, fun, sad and original, and has much to say about the times in which we live." Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph, 1.2.10 "Thought-provoking, observant and emotionally intelligent, this is a superb piece of new writing". Aleks Sierz, The Stage, 27.1.10 "The prodigiously talented James Graham has written The Whisky Taster ... a touching love story ... is extremely funny but has a heart." Philip Fisher, British Theatre Guide 'part advertising industry satire, part thwarted romantic comedy, and part celebration of Scotch' Michael Billington, The Guardian, 27.01.10
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