Puwanarajah / Basden Double Feature: Two

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-78001-377-0
Verlag: Nick Hern Books
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 120 Seiten

Reihe: NHB Modern Plays

Double Feature brings together - in two volumes of paired short plays - four of the most exciting new voices in UK theatre, in their first commissions for the National Theatre. This volume, Double Feature: Two, contains: Nightwatchman by Prasanna Puwanarajah A British Sri Lankan cricketer prepares for the innings of her life for England against Sri Lanka at Lord's. Facing a relentless bowling machine she challenges our preconceptions of politics, sport and national pride as harshly as she challenges her own. There is a War by Tom Basden A miniature epic that explores the mad savagery of war with biting black comedy, and takes us into the dark heart of a strange and surreal conflict. As soldiers, priests and scavengers roam a battle-scorched landscape, a young medical officer finds herself abandoned and useless, unable to locate the hospital or even the war she was promised. The plays premiered in a specially converted space at the National Theatre in July 2011. They were performed alongside Edgar & Annabel by Sam Holcroft and The Swan by DC Moore, published in the companion volume Double Feature: One.

Prasanna Puwanarajah is a writer and director for film, television and theatre. He studied medicine at New College, Oxford, working extensively in the National Health Service and for Médicins du Monde before moving into writing and directing. His debut play Nightwatchman premiered at the National Theatre, London, in 2011, where he has also worked as an actor. He was appointed Artistic Associate at the Donmar Warehouse in 2020.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Puwanarajah, Prasanna

Basden, Tom