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Paperback. One of the best new plays of 2011, Dawn King's Foxfinder is a gripping, unsettling and darkly comic exploration of belief,desire and responsibility. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 8. Weight in Grams: 124.
England is in crisis. Fields are flooded, food is scarce and fear grips the land.
William Bloor, a foxfinder, arrives at Judith and Samuel Covey's farm to investigate a suspected fox infestation. The Coveys' harvest has failed to meet their target and the government wants to know why. Trained from childhood, William is fixated on his mission to unearth the animals that must be to blame for the Coveys' woes. But as the hunt progresses, William finds more questions than answers…
A darkly comic, spell-binding dystopian drama, Dawn King's Foxfinder won the 2011 Papatango New Writing Prize and ... Read more
Foxfinder had its West End premiere at the Ambassadors Theatre, London, in 2018, in a production directed by Rachel O'Riordan.
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Publisher
Nick Hern Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
123g
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848422445
SKU
V9781848422445
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Ref
99-5
About Dawn King
Dawn King is an award-winning writer who works in theatre, radio and film. Her other plays include Ciphers and Brave New World.
Reviews for Foxfinder
'Sharp of tooth and riddled with a clawing dread, Dawn King's 2011 rural drama is a fierce and fabulous beast... King's writing feels at once wonderfully strange and naggingly familiar, with echoes of Caryl Churchill's Far Away and Arthur Miller's The Crucible'
The Stage
'The play, riddled with alternative facts, conspiracy theories and fake news, sits right at ... Read more
The Stage
'The play, riddled with alternative facts, conspiracy theories and fake news, sits right at ... Read more