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Hope

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Description for Hope Paperback. An urgent political play from the writer behind Let The Right One In and This is England '86. Hope is a funny and scathing fable attacking the squeeze on local government. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 120 x 9. Weight in Grams: 132.

'We live in an age of cuts. We are a working-class town, that’s our strength – and in the current climate, our weakness.'

An urgent political play from the writer behind Let The Right One In and This is England ’86. Hope is a funny and scathing fable attacking the squeeze on local government.

How do you save twenty-two million pounds? Mark and Hilary, the leaders of the Council, are about to find out.

Jack Thorne's play Hope premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in November 2014.

Product Details

Publisher
Nick Hern Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848424470
SKU
V9781848424470
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Ref
99-10

About Jack Thorne
Jack Thorne is a playwright and BAFTA-winning screenwriter. His plays for the stage include: When Winston Went to War with the Wireless (Donmar Warehouse, 2023); The Motive and the Cue (National Theatre and West End, 2023); After Life, an adaptation of a film by Hirokazu Kore-eda (National Theatre, 2021); the end of history... (Royal Court, London, 2019); an ... Read more

Reviews for Hope
'Valuable and timely... a sunburst of optimism''
Daily Telegraph
'A surprisingly entertaining state-of-the-nation drama'
The Stage
'Mischievous without being strident, combining pensiveness and wry humour'
Evening Standard
'Sharp yet generous-spirited... [Hope] earns its final glow of optimism by being a critical, hard-edged play that is not a cynical one... it's rather beautiful'
The ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Hope


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