random

Häftad, Engelska, 2008

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Beskrivning

An urgent play about the senseless killing of a black schoolboy, from one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary British playwriting.'Death never used to be for the young. You get up.You go bout your business.You expect to come back.'debbie tucker green's play random was first performed at the Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Downstairs, London, in March 2008, directed by Sacha Wares and performed by Nadine Marshall.A television adaptation for Channel 4, directed by debbie tucker green and starring Nadine Marshall alongside an expanded cast, was first broadcast in August 2011. It went on to win a BAFTA for Best Single Drama.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2008-03-13
Mått:129 x 198 x 5 mm
Vikt:74 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:NHB Modern Plays
Antal sidor:64
Upplaga:12002
Förlag:Nick Hern Books
ISBN:9781848421059

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debbie tucker green is a playwright, screenwriter and director.Her plays include: ear for eye (Royal Court Theatre, 2018); a profoundly affectionate, passionate devotion to someone (-noun) (Royal Court Theatre, 2017); hang (Royal Court, 2015); nut (National Theatre, 2013); truth and reconciliation (Royal Court, 2011); random (Royal Court, 2008); generations (Young Vic, 2007); stoning mary (Royal Court, 2005); trade (RSC, 2005); born bad (Hampstead Theatre, 2003; Olivier Award for Most Promising Newcomer); and dirty butterfly (Soho Theatre, 2003).She wrote and directed the feature film, Second Coming (BFI/Film 4, 2014; International Film Festival Rotterdam Big Screen Award) and adapted her play random into a TV film for Channel 4, which won the 2012 BAFTA for Best Single Drama and the Black International Film/MVSA Award for Best UK Film.Her work for radio includes: lament (Radio Academy Arias Gold Award), gone, random, handprint and freefall.She was awarded the 2015 Windham Campbell Prize for Drama.

Recensioner i media

'Remarkable... gets right inside the characters, capturing the sudden devastation in their lives, the unbearable sense of loss... the writing seems to penetrate the very heart of grief... whisks the audience from laughter to comfortless sorrow in less than an hour'