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Description for The Way Home
Paperback. Down the road in Oil Street, Liverpool, there are no walls, and a fierce sense of belonging that has nothing to do with place. There are two families, two ways of life: yards apart, yet worlds between. But when Bobby starts skipping school to hang out with Danny, their friendship forces both families to look beyond the walls that divide them. Num Pages: 96 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 6. Weight in Grams: 116.
A spiky play about the clash between suburban and itinerant ways of life in present-day Liverpool.
Bobby, Paul and Ange. Three people, four walls: the basic recipe for family life. Down the road in Curzon Park there are no walls, just wheels, and a fierce sense of belonging that has nothing to do with place.
Two ways of life: yards apart and yet worlds apart. But when Bobby starts skipping school to hang out with Danny, their friendship forces both families to look beyond the walls that divide them.
Chloë Moss's play The Way Home was first ... Read more
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Publisher
Nick Hern Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781854599605
SKU
V9781854599605
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-5
About Chloë Moss
Chloë Moss is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter. Her plays include: Corrina, Corrina (Headlong & Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse, 2022); Run Sister Run (Paines Plough, Soho Theatre & Sheffield Theatres, 2020); The Gatekeeper (Royal Exchange, Manchester, 2012); Fatal Light (part of Clean Break & Soho Theatre's Charged season, 2010); This Wide Night (Clean Break and Soho Theatre, 2008; winner of ... Read more
Reviews for The Way Home
'Moss has produced a quietly impressive string of tender, slender coming-of-age dramas'
Guardian
'Her dialogue crackles with authenticity'
Time Out
'A genius for catching the currents - and undercurrents - of everyday conversation'
The Times
'An observant, sensitive and sad play, never preaching, always generous'
Sunday Times
Guardian
'Her dialogue crackles with authenticity'
Time Out
'A genius for catching the currents - and undercurrents - of everyday conversation'
The Times
'An observant, sensitive and sad play, never preaching, always generous'
Sunday Times