A monologue first transmitted on Radio 4, this is the
story of a young autistic Jewish girl. After learning
that she is terminally ill with cancer, she becomes
fascinated by dramatic stage deaths in opera and
inspired by the dignity and courage of people who died
in Nazi concentration camps.
The humour is that the tragic situation (father's affair, mother's vodka drinking, disabled child dying of cancer) is all seen through Spoonface's eyes and thus has the innocent, dispassionate feel that an adult would lack. Desperate situations are made to seem okay & the whole thing is suffused in opera & a background of the suffering in the holocaust.
The humour is that the tragic situation (father's affair, mother's vodka drinking, disabled child dying of cancer) is all seen through Spoonface's eyes and thus has the innocent, dispassionate feel that an adult would lack. Desperate situations are made to seem okay & the whole thing is suffused in opera & a background of the suffering in the holocaust.
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