The Killing of Sister George

A Comedy

Frank Marcus

Author Frank Marcus was once The Sunday Telegraph’s distinguished drama critic, and when he laid pen to paper for this play, he captured a powerful struggle between a BBC executive and a radio star. One can imagine that this is set as much in real life as in fiction.

Sister George, a not-very-closeted lesbian, is the star of soap opera Applehurst, a program with slipping ratings. George is in a relationship with the much younger Childie, and acts as much as surrogate mother as lover. Whenever Childie crosses George, George starts drinking and goes on cruel rampages and wild nights: anything to avoid being alone with herself.

Childie, a woman actually in her 30s, is beset by her own demons born from mistakes as a teenager, and she too acts out whenever faced with the prospect of being alone.

Enter antagonist Mercy Croft, who has her eyes set on Childie and tries to pull her away from George so that she can have the ‘younger woman.’

All three are faced with failures, haunted pasts and dark futures as they battle their loneliness and need for power. Don’t look for any happy endings here.

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Genre	Movie/Media Tie-In; Performing Arts; Pulp
Copyright Date	1965
Publication Date	1969
Publisher	Bantam
Format	Mass Market Paperback
No. of Pages	136
Notes	Bantam Book S4487 A** rating in Grier
Language	English
Rating	Good
Cover Artist	Joseph Caroff
Subject	Lesbians – Fiction; Play
BookID	6371

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