Ken Urban’s words are poetry. Voices and story lines converge and diverge like an elaborately mixed recording. The dialogue is full of stylized harmonies and dissonances; plots and characters operate in counterpoint.

- Catherine Rampell, New York Times - Critics' Pick

intense . . . Ken Urban's fine play

Time Out London

Urban's play is a compelling political thriller which not only discusses major issues of guilt and complicity, but also examines the moral choices made by all of his finely drawn characters.

Tribune

The weight of what is to come is unbearable. It is crushing me.
The sound of the crying, it never ceases. I carry this inside and now tell only you.


Charles, a disgraced New York Times journalist, arrives in Rwanda for an exclusive interview with two Hutu nuns. Charged with war crimes, the nuns must convince the world of their innocence during the 1994 genocide. When an unknown survivor contradicts the nuns’ story, Charles must decide between saving his career or telling a murkier truth that might condemn the nuns to a life in prison.

Ken Urban's award-winning Sense Of An Ending shines a light on journalistic truth and morality amid the atrocity of the Rwandan genocide. The play was produced and published during the twenty-first century anniversary of the genocide, and is a striking and compelling political thriller asking if forgiveness is possible in a world where truth is never simple.

Sense Of An Ending was premiered at Theatre503, London, on 12 May 2015.

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Ken Urban's award-winning Sense Of An Ending shines a light on journalistic truth and morality amid the atrocity of the Rwandan genocide.
The play won the L. Arnold Weissberger Playwriting Award for Best New American Play
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ISBN
9781474248495
Publisert
2015-05-12
Utgiver
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Vekt
80 gr
Høyde
196 mm
Bredde
128 mm
Dybde
8 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
96

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Biografisk notat

Ken Urban is a playwright based in New York City.