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Description for Our Father
Paperback. Time, memory and family is explored in this new work from the multi-award winning playwright Charlotte Keatley. Series: Modern Plays. Num Pages: 128 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 9. Weight in Grams: 112.
This warm and gripping story of fear and forgiveness is the first major play in twenty years from Charlotte Keatley, the award-winning author of My Mother Said I Never Should. This beautifully immersive and yet also elusive new play is a subtle and compassionate piece, with real humanity of characterisation and a firmly-evoked sense of place. A young woman on the eve of her 30th birthday returns to her parents' home in the sweeping hills of the Peak District. But the house is full of memories, and down by the reservoir she hears a voice from a drowned ... Read more
This warm and gripping story of fear and forgiveness is the first major play in twenty years from Charlotte Keatley, the award-winning author of My Mother Said I Never Should. This beautifully immersive and yet also elusive new play is a subtle and compassionate piece, with real humanity of characterisation and a firmly-evoked sense of place. A young woman on the eve of her 30th birthday returns to her parents' home in the sweeping hills of the Peak District. But the house is full of memories, and down by the reservoir she hears a voice from a drowned ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Series
Modern Plays
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408172513
SKU
V9781408172513
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Ref
99-5
About Charlotte Keatley
Charlotte Keatley was born in London on 5 January 1960. Her first play, My Mother Said I Never Should, which she wrote in 1985, was first performed at the Contact Theatre, Manchester, in 1987, and won both the Royal Court/George Devine Award and the Manchester Evening News Theatre Award for Best New Play. The play was revised for a ... Read more
Reviews for Our Father
[A] hugely ambitious play … its refrains of language mean that one scene is haunted by another; its scope is epic
Lyn Gardner
Guardian
Keatley … displays undoubted experience and craft in this new piece – shuttling between different periods, and fusing the naturalistic with the mythic
Dominic Cavendish
Telegraph
Ambitious, fascinating
Unknown ... Read more
Lyn Gardner
Guardian
Keatley … displays undoubted experience and craft in this new piece – shuttling between different periods, and fusing the naturalistic with the mythic
Dominic Cavendish
Telegraph
Ambitious, fascinating
Unknown ... Read more