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The Distance
Deborah Bruce
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Description for The Distance
Paperback. A sharply funny play about motherhood (and fatherhood), keeping control and letting go. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 413 x 13. Weight in Grams: 128.
A painfully funny play about motherhood (and fatherhood), about keeping control, and about letting go.
Good friends should be there for one another – no matter what. But when Bea returns home after five years abroad, having made a bold choice about her life, old friends struggle to support her, or even to understand. One night in Brighton, things threaten to slide into chaos...
Deborah Bruce's play The Distance was premiered at the Orange Tree Theatre, London, in October 2014. It was a finalist for the 2012-13 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.
Product Details
Publisher
Nick Hern Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
104
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848424449
SKU
V9781848424449
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99-10
About Deborah Bruce
Deborah Bruce is a writer and theatre director. Her plays include The Distance (a finalist for the 2012-13 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize), Godchild at Hampstead Theatre and Same for the National Theatre Connections Festival 2014.
Reviews for The Distance
'Lively, funny... Bruce is very good at exploring the mixed emotions that result from a major domestic upheaval and at analysing the clamorous demands of female friendship'
Guardian
'Bruce's writing is punchy and full of truth-telling charm... observant, funny and rooted in the real... a highly emotional and intelligently taboo-busting evening'
The Arts Desk
'Sharply written... ... Read more
Guardian
'Bruce's writing is punchy and full of truth-telling charm... observant, funny and rooted in the real... a highly emotional and intelligently taboo-busting evening'
The Arts Desk
'Sharply written... ... Read more