{"product_id":"little-wars-9781839040030","title":"Little Wars","description":"A dinner party during the Second World War unites celebrated writers Agatha Christie, Lillian Hellman, Dorothy Parker, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas - with a mysterious guest.With copious booze flowing, acid-tongued barbs flying, and the threat of global conflict looming, the guests - and the world around them - are close to boiling point. Everyone has a confession. Someone has a secret.Set in the French Alps in 1940, Steven Carl McCasland's \u003cem\u003eLittle Wars \u003c\/em\u003eis an enthralling, entertaining and ultimately moving portrait of seven exceptional women - and a thrilling fiction based on truth.It was workshopped Off-Off-Broadway, first performed in 2015, and received an acclaimed digital premiere in 2020, featuring Linda Bassett, Sarah Solemani, Juliet Stevenson and Sophie Thompson. It provides glorious opportunities for an all-female cast to play some of the greatest literary figures of the twentieth century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSteven Carl McCasland is a playwright and the founder and Artistic Director of the Beautiful Soup Theater Collective.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHis plays include: \u003cem\u003eFun Being Me \u003c\/em\u003e(adapted from work by Jack Wiler), \u003cem\u003eWhen I'm 64\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e Hope \u0026amp; Glory\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e Opheliacs Anonymous\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e Blue\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e Pulchritudinous\u003c\/em\u003e (First Place, Huntington Award in Playwriting), \u003cem\u003eBilly Learns About Captain Kirk\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAlice Au Pays Des Merveilles\u003c\/em\u003e (an adaptation of Lewis Carroll's \u003cem\u003eAlice's Adventures in Wonderland\u003c\/em\u003e), \u003cem\u003eneat \u0026amp; tidy \u003c\/em\u003eand\u003cem\u003e Little Wars.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Nick Hern Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50452419739922,"sku":"9781839040030","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a5121a2d-12e2-4a39-b050-cff9034e4f5f.jpg?v=1729811195","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/little-wars-9781839040030","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}