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Operation Crucible
Kieran Knowles
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Description for Operation Crucible
Paperback. The world premiere of a new play, set against the backdrop of the Sheffield Blitz - Operation Crucible, a first play by new playwright Kieran Knowles. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 130 x 6. Weight in Grams: 124.
“Sheffield’s on fire, it glows orange, like hell, like a furnace, like steel. The streets which were familiar are now just bricks, mortar and flame. My childhood, my home… just a pile of stone.” A story of four ordinary men in extraordinary times... On the 12 December 1940, more than six hundred people lost their lives in over seven hours of continuous bombing by Germany's Luftwaffe. Their objective? Wiping Sheffield’s world famous steel works - the heartland of Britain’s munitions manufacturing - clean off the map. The ruthless attack left Sheffield in ruins – destroying families, shattering a ... Read more
“Sheffield’s on fire, it glows orange, like hell, like a furnace, like steel. The streets which were familiar are now just bricks, mortar and flame. My childhood, my home… just a pile of stone.” A story of four ordinary men in extraordinary times... On the 12 December 1940, more than six hundred people lost their lives in over seven hours of continuous bombing by Germany's Luftwaffe. Their objective? Wiping Sheffield’s world famous steel works - the heartland of Britain’s munitions manufacturing - clean off the map. The ruthless attack left Sheffield in ruins – destroying families, shattering a ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oberon Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
123g
Number of Pages
88
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781783190805
SKU
V9781783190805
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Kieran Knowles
Kieran Knowles makes his professional playwriting debut with Operation Crucible. He is a graduate of Loughborough University, LAMDA, and the Royal Court Young Writers Programme.
Reviews for Operation Crucible
Kieran Knowles has fashioned a remarkable first play... while showing that steelwork depends on a carefully synchronised collaboration, Knowles also individualises the men... While celebrating the men's courage, Knowles also shows how, in the crisis of enforced incarceration, their solidarity breaks down... Although created from research, this is a play that vividly evokes both the terrors of wartime bombing and ... Read more