The Clink

by Stephen Jeffreys

Elizabeth I is tottering at death's door. Conspirators are everywhere. A politically sensitive International Trade Delegation is on its way to London. Who can be trusted to entertain them? Alternative comedian Lucius Bodkin thinks he'll hit the big time - but he's reckoned without the Tudor backstabbers and the City wide boys. Half the time The Clink seems like a lost Elizabethan comedy, of the school of Jonson, the other half is a riotously funny political satire, which offers some sharp parallels with our own times, when art must be sponsored, to be sponsored it must be safe.

Genres: Plays

85 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 1991