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21%OFFKatherine Soper - Wish List - 9781848426023 - V9781848426023
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Wish List

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Description for Wish List Paperback. Winner of the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting 2015. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 20. Weight in Grams: 132.

A sensitive, delicate and powerful play that asks what our labour is worth and how life can be lived when the system is stacked against you.

‘I dreamt about this last night. I dreamt that I was packing boxes in boxes in boxes.’

Tamsin packs boxes in a warehouse, on the clock, to a target, with a zero-hour contract. Her brother Dean is housebound, working to obsessive-compulsive rituals of his own.

When Dean is declared fit for work, their benefits are cut. There are phone calls to make, appeals to lodge and endless forms to fill in. ... Read more

Katherine Soper's play Wish List won the 2015 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting and was co-produced by the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, and the Royal Court Theatre, London. It premiered at the Royal Exchange in September 2016 and the Royal Court in January 2017, and Katherine Soper was named Best Writer in the 2017 Stage Debut Awards.

‘The play has such eloquence, such quiet craft, such dignity and such compassion’ Sir Nicholas Hytner

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Product Details

Publisher
Nick Hern Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
120
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848426023
SKU
V9781848426023
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Ref
99-2

About Katherine Soper
Katherine Soper is a playwright whose work includes Wish List (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, 2016, and Royal Court, London, 2017; winner of the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting) and Star Jelly (RHS Flower Show at Tatton Park, 2016).

Reviews for Wish List
'Lays bare social iniquities without resorting to melodrama… its motivating spirit is the same as a Ken Loach film: this isn’t fair, and attention must be paid'
Financial Times
'A beautifully compassionate, tender and at times gently humorous piece of work… in its clear-eyed look at the interplay between two dehumanising systems, it arouses due political indignation. A ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Wish List


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