This second collection of plays by David Eldridge showcases the
development of one of the most impressive playwriting talents of
recent years. His plays combine emotional impact with complexity,
realistic characterisation with humour, and are among the most
powerfully moving dramas of contemporary playwriting. Incomplete and
Random Acts of Kindness moves between a dream story and real lives to
tell an intricate, complex story of a young man dealing with the break
up of his family and the legacy of race responsibility. Market Boy is
a gloriously raucous rites-of-passage drama set in Romford Market in
the 1980s. Bringing a market jungle to life with the decade's
Thatcherite capitalist fervour, this spectacular, savage, and
beautiful yarn is a tale looks at a boy's coming of age and loss of
innocence. The Knot of the Heart has themes of love, family and
addiction, and explores the creeping onset of self-destruction beneath
a veneer of respectability. Full of David Eldridge's trademark
lyricism within everyday family life and interaction, this is a play
where emotions are high and relationships are sensitively written. The
Stock Da'wa explodes the wafer thin bonhomie of a long-awaited reunion
into a blackly funny maelstrom of pique and long repressed
truth-telling - and with shocking consequences. Eldridge Plays 2
contains the definitive version of the four plays and an introduction
by the author.
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Incomplete and Random Acts of Kindness, Market Boy, The Knot of the Heart, The Stock Da'Wa
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781408177129
Publisert
2015
Utgave
1. utgave
Utgiver
Vendor
Methuen Drama
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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