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Debbie Tucker Green
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Paperback. An urgent play about the senseless killing of a black schoolboy, from one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary British playwriting. Num Pages: 50 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 5. Weight in Grams: 76.
A young black woman starts telling us about her day. She speaks in a continuous present tense: The alarm clock goes. She tries to ignore it. She goes downstairs. Her parents are nagging her younger brother that he'll be late for school. He leaves in a rush, the parents grumble. She gets ready for work. Then the police are at the door. The boy has been killed in a random knife attack. And their world implodes - Written with a vivid immediacy that captures the wonderfully observed idiosyncrasies of an ordinary family starting what they think is an ordinary day, ... Read more
A young black woman starts telling us about her day. She speaks in a continuous present tense: The alarm clock goes. She tries to ignore it. She goes downstairs. Her parents are nagging her younger brother that he'll be late for school. He leaves in a rush, the parents grumble. She gets ready for work. Then the police are at the door. The boy has been killed in a random knife attack. And their world implodes - Written with a vivid immediacy that captures the wonderfully observed idiosyncrasies of an ordinary family starting what they think is an ordinary day, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Nick Hern Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
50
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
87g
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848421059
SKU
V9781848421059
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-2
About Debbie Tucker Green
DEBBIE TUCKER GREEN's plays include Born Bad, Dirty Butterfly, Stoning Mary, Trade and Generations at Hampstead, Soho, RSC, Royal Court and Young Vic. She has established herself as the 'hottest' black British female playwright.
Reviews for Random
Debbie Tucker Green is one of the most assured and extraordinary new voices we've heard in a long whileA Independent on Sunday