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Description for Mudlarks
Paperback. A visceral play about friendship, teenage recklessness, futile ambitions and frustrated hopes. Series: Modern Plays. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 6. Weight in Grams: 78.
Mudlarks is a tragic, beautifully realised play about three young men trapped at the wrong end of the river. On the muddy banks of the Thames, downstream from the bright lights of London, three boys hide from the police after a night of recklessness. Over the course of the freezing night their fears, secrets and dreams emerge, collide and combust revealing the desperate frustration of lives barely led but already ravaged. As morning dawns, their options diminish and just two questions remain: do they have the power to determine their own fates, or are they destined to sink into the ... Read more
Mudlarks is a tragic, beautifully realised play about three young men trapped at the wrong end of the river. On the muddy banks of the Thames, downstream from the bright lights of London, three boys hide from the police after a night of recklessness. Over the course of the freezing night their fears, secrets and dreams emerge, collide and combust revealing the desperate frustration of lives barely led but already ravaged. As morning dawns, their options diminish and just two questions remain: do they have the power to determine their own fates, or are they destined to sink into the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
Series
Modern Plays
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408173039
SKU
V9781408173039
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Ref
99-1
About Vickie Donoghue
Vickie studied for an MA in Creative Writing at City University, London. She was one of the winners of the 2005 Windsor Fringe Marriot Award for New Writing. She is currently Writer in Residence at If you DareProductions and was one of their writers involved in their recent production Remix (a collaboration between some of London's most exciting new writers, ... Read more
Reviews for Mudlarks
Donoghue’s remarkably accomplished play … her sharp ear for dialogue maintains a beautiful tension between comedy, tragedy and a desolate lyricism
Jane Shilling
Telegraph
Donoghue’s small but distinctive debut play sings with promise
Lyn Gardner
Guardian
This is a play that believes in the transporting, if not transforming power of words; its language is ... Read more
Jane Shilling
Telegraph
Donoghue’s small but distinctive debut play sings with promise
Lyn Gardner
Guardian
This is a play that believes in the transporting, if not transforming power of words; its language is ... Read more