Caustic Cover Critic: On Your Bike

Monday, 22 October 2012

On Your Bike

A play I just read, Penelope Skinner's The Village Bike, is about a sexually frustrated pregnant woman who buys a bicycle and then gets involved in an affair with the bike's previous owner. It has a really clever, witty and rude cover by artist Jurgen Ziewe.

9 comments:

Brian Busby said...: When I first read your title, my mind went immediately to "the bicycle Heathcliff used on his trips through the moors."

You'll understand and forgive me, I hope.; 22 October 2012 at 15:44
JRSM said...: Ha, yes, of course--if you'll forgive me for introducing that image into your head in the first place!; 22 October 2012 at 15:49
jb said...: Awesome cover.

Story sounds interesting, too. I don't usually read plays, but every now & then one sounds too good to miss...; 22 October 2012 at 16:31
JRSM said...: Every now and then I go on a bit of play binge--the ones I want to see never seem to be performed in this part of the world, so I almost always read them rather than see them.; 22 October 2012 at 17:11
Ian Koviak said...: super brilliant fucking awesome rad shit.; 22 October 2012 at 23:01
JRSM said...: Such restraint!; 23 October 2012 at 01:58
Jonathan Walker said...: Maybe this is so obvious that you didn't think it worth mentioning; or maybe it's a specifically English idiom, but 'the village bike' means a promiscuous woman (i.e. everyone's had a ride).; 23 October 2012 at 05:53
Chasch said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 23 October 2012 at 09:26
Chasch said...: @Jonathan Walker Well I'm happy you mentioned that, because I didn't know. It's basically the opposite of the village dyke! Oh ho ho I'm so inappropriately clever this morning...; 23 October 2012 at 09:26