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Torben Betts: Plays One
Torben Betts
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Description for Torben Betts: Plays One
Paperback. A powerful selection of plays from Torben Betts, each exploring the fragility of life and human suffering and loss. Num Pages: 279 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 133 x 17. Weight in Grams: 354.
A Listening Heaven, which focuses on one family's painful inability to grieve for a dead son, was first produced in 1999 to critical acclaim at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough, where Betts was the resident dramatist. Mummies and Daddies, developed at the RNT Studio, brutally yet hilariously lays bare the soullessness of consumerism. In Clockwatching, produced at both the SJT and the Orange Tree Theatre in 2001, a despotic man descends into helplessness when his servile wife falls seriously ill. With an introduction by Connal Orton.
A Listening Heaven, which focuses on one family's painful inability to grieve for a dead son, was first produced in 1999 to critical acclaim at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough, where Betts was the resident dramatist. Mummies and Daddies, developed at the RNT Studio, brutally yet hilariously lays bare the soullessness of consumerism. In Clockwatching, produced at both the SJT and the Orange Tree Theatre in 2001, a despotic man descends into helplessness when his servile wife falls seriously ill. With an introduction by Connal Orton.
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
279
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781840021769
SKU
V9781840021769
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Ref
99-5
About Torben Betts
Torben Betts read English Literature & English Language at the University of Liverpool before training and working as an actor. Works include: The Unconquered, Best New Play 2007 Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland (Tron/Traverse/Arcola/Brits-off-Broadway); A Listening Heaven, nominated for Best New Play at the 2001 TMA Awards (Edinburgh Royal Lyceum); Lie of the Land, nominated for Edinburgh Fringe ... Read more
Reviews for Torben Betts: Plays One
"A wonderfully accomplished first play" Alan Ayckbourn (A Listening Heaven) "A complex writer of misery pock marked with painful comedy" (Yorkshire Evening Post)"