Jobsworth - (Modern Plays) by Isley Lynn & Libby Rodliffe (Paperback)

About the Book

Book Synopsis

As far as I'm concerned, why get paid to sit on my arse at home when I can get paid to sit on my arse in a lobby
Where I also get paid

Bea's secretly working three full-time jobs.

All at the same time.

And she's still financially f*cked.

Between looking after luxury flats and dogsitting the world's ugliest pooch, she's neck-deep in employers and it's only a matter of time until someone finds out she's breaking all her contracts.

Armed with nothing but her smarmiest boss' dirty secret, can Bea get herself out of the red and into the black (and into the fit intern's bed)? Or will the plates she's been spinning come crashing down around her and her dysfunctional family?

Jobsworth is a riotous comedy about snakes and surviving capitalism written by Isley Lynn and Libby Rodliffe.

This edition was published to coincide with the world premiere at the Pleasance Courtyard, at Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August 2024.

About the Author

Isley Lynn is an American-born, London-based playwright and poet. They won the 'Charles Wintour Most Promising Playwright Award' at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards 2023 for their play The Swell, which opened to great acclaim as part of Tom Littler's first season at the Orange Tree Theatre and was also nominated for Best New Play, Best Director and Best Production at the 2023 Offie Awards. Their play Skin a Cat was awarded Pick of the Year at the Vault Festival 2016 and its production at The Bunker later that year led to four nominations for Off West End Awards including Most Promising New Playwright and Best New Play; it then toured nationally in 2018. Other credits include: The War of the Worlds (New Diorama Theatre 2019, international tour 2021); 'Canace' in 15 Heroines (Jermyn Street Theatre 2020); Albatross (Paines Plough and the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama at Bute Theatre and Gate Theatre 2018); The Swell (HighTide First Commissions play reading 2018); Sie und Wir (Us and Them) for Werk X in Vienna (2016); Tether (Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2015); and What's So Special (as part of The Get Out at the Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Upstairs 2014). Her play Bright Nights was a Script6 winner at The Space in 2014.

Libby Rodliffe is an actor and writer who trained at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and also with Second City Improv and Estill Singing & Voice Training. Her screen credits include TV's Call the Midwife and feature film 'Six from Eight. She recently finished the UK tour of Isley Lynn's award-winning play Skin A Cat. In 2024, Libby and Isley co-wrote Jobsworth, which premiered at Edinburgh Fringe Festival.