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Chunky

The Best Bits from Acorn Antiques to Kitty and more

Victoria Wood , Intro. Celia Imrie

Highlighting the observational wit that allowed Victoria to skewer the absurdities of everyday life, this volume brings together the complete scripts of her spoof soap opera Acorn Antiques, the Kitty monologues, and thirty sketches written for stage shows and collected as Up to You, Porky. Revised since its first publication in 1996 and with notes by Wood’s biographer, Jasper Rees, it also presents examples from Barmy and Mens Sana in Thingummy Doodah.

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Product information:
  • Publisher: Trapeze
  • Year: 2023
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 464pp
  • Illustrated: No
  • Dimensions: 240x158mm
  • ISBN: 9781398707504
  • Condition: New
  • Weight: 0.7kg
Product code:
545696
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'There was none like her before and there's been none like her since - she was unique.' Dawn French

Published to celebrate the much-missed Victoria Wood's 70th birthday, this stunning hardback edition of Chunky contains the very best of Wood's sketches and shows, including those never seen on TV, as well as:

NEW introduction from Celia Imrie, star of many of Victoria Wood's shows

Additions and annotations from Wood's acclaimed official biographer, Jasper Rees.

'I was very proud to be part of her gang.' Celia Imrie

'She is on a par with Alan Bennett.' Clive James

'Absolutely perfect.' Sarra Manning
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