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Description for Piranha Heights
Paperback. A programme playtext of Philip Ridley's latest haunting work for Soho Theatre , London, from May 2008. Series: Modern Plays. Num Pages: 120 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 198 x 129 x 7. Weight in Grams: 112.
‘Look - they're fading. Those liars. Dissolving . . . It's the end of their world . . . The birth of a new one . . . Our one . . . Our world.' It's Mother's Day and mother is dead. Now her two sons gather in her home to argue about the truth of their childhood. But a storm is approaching . . . with a violent new truth all of its own. Piranha Heights is non-stop, filthily poetic and a searing insight into the disenchantment of young people ... Read more
‘Look - they're fading. Those liars. Dissolving . . . It's the end of their world . . . The birth of a new one . . . Our one . . . Our world.' It's Mother's Day and mother is dead. Now her two sons gather in her home to argue about the truth of their childhood. But a storm is approaching . . . with a violent new truth all of its own. Piranha Heights is non-stop, filthily poetic and a searing insight into the disenchantment of young people ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Series
Modern Plays
Condition
New
Number of Pages
120
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781474238847
SKU
V9781474238847
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Ref
99-5
About Philip Ridley
Philip Ridley is a contemporary artist, poet, novelist, film-maker and one of the country's most celebrated living playwrights. Ridley has been described as 'probably a genius' (Time Out), 'a visionary' (Rolling Stone), 'the master of modern myth' (Guardian) and 'the best British playwright of the last 20 years' (Aleks Sierz, author of In-Yer-Face Theatre).
Reviews for Piranha Heights
The play has a raw, brutal poetry to it . . . a stark work by a distinct, unsettling voice.
Time Out London
Time Out London