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Yen
Anna Jordan
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Description for Yen
Paperback. Anna Jordan's Bruntwood Prize-winning play, Yen explores a childhood lived without boundaries and the consequences of being forced to grow up on your own. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 19. Weight in Grams: 166.
Anna Jordan's Bruntwood Prize-winning play, Yen explores a childhood lived without boundaries and the consequences of being forced to grow up on your own. Hench is sixteen, Bobbie is thirteen. They're home alone in Feltham with their dog Taliban; playing PlayStation, streaming porn, watching the world go by. Sometimes their mum Maggie visits, usually with empty pockets and empty promises. Then Jenny shows up. Yen won the 2013 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting and was first performed at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, before transferring to the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 2016.
Anna Jordan's Bruntwood Prize-winning play, Yen explores a childhood lived without boundaries and the consequences of being forced to grow up on your own. Hench is sixteen, Bobbie is thirteen. They're home alone in Feltham with their dog Taliban; playing PlayStation, streaming porn, watching the world go by. Sometimes their mum Maggie visits, usually with empty pockets and empty promises. Then Jenny shows up. Yen won the 2013 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting and was first performed at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, before transferring to the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 2016.
Product Details
Publisher
Nick Hern Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848425514
SKU
V9781848425514
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Ref
99-2
About Anna Jordan
Anna Jordan's play Yen won the 2013 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting. Her other plays include Chicken Shop (Park Theatre, 2014), Freak (Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh, 2014), Closer To God (Best Play and Audience Award at the Offcut Festival, 2009) and Just For Fun Totally Random (Best New Writing at the Lost One Act Festival, 2009). As ... Read more
Reviews for Yen
'[A] terrifying, witty, and compassionate study of the awful penalties of growing up alone and without boundaries' - Independent; 'A savage study of two teenage boys abandoned by society... leaves a lump in the throat that won't go down' - Time Out; '[A] brutal but tender study of brotherhood... the dynamic range of Jordan's writing is extraordinary... achieves the uncommon ... Read more