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Visitors: Oberon Modern Plays

Autor Barney Norris
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 feb 2014
On a farmhouse at the edge of Salisbury Plain, a family is falling apart. Stephen can't afford to put his mother into care; Arthur can't afford to stop working and look after his wife. When a young stranger with blue hair moves in to care for Edie as her mind unravels, the family are forced to ask: are we living the way we wanted? Visitors is a haunting, beautiful look at the way our lives slip past us. "We don't see many plays on our contemporary stages that address the subject of aging, and most certainly not plays that brim with the humanity, insight, wit and pathos of Visitors. It's a triumph of achievement and the fact that it is 27-year-old Barney Norris's first full-length drama makes it even more remarkable... Parts this finely written are manna for actors... This is a quietly - but utterly - magnificent piece of writing. Be a visitor to it." - Evening Standard "Infinitely touching...a mature and tender play. Norris] is an authentic new voice." - Guardian "An absolute beauty, by turns funny, tender and desperately sad. There is great richness and an almost poetic resonance in the writing so that we can almost see the play of light across their fields and apprehend the jolting dislocation of dementia. It is much harder to write interestingly about happiness than it is about misery, but Norris often does just that." - Telegraph "It's a hefty subject - the way dementia destroys people's minds and families - but Norris's excellent play deals with it with surprising lightness of touch and humour." - Time Out London "A tender, elegiac, beautifully written and observed play." - Mail on Sunday
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781783191048
ISBN-10: 178319104X
Pagini: 88
Dimensiuni: 130 x 210 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.12 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Oberon Books
Seria Oberon Modern Plays

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Barney Norris' plays are Visitors, Fear of Music and At First Sight. His first pamphlet of poems, Falling, has just been published, and his first book, To Bodies Gone: The Theatre of Peter Gill, is forthcoming from Seren. Theatre as director includes I Cinna (St James Theatre), Ashes (Arcola Theatre for the Miniaturists) and Schnapps (Lyric Hammersmith). He is an associate of Out of Joint, runs workshop programs for Salisbury Playhouse and Southampton Nuffield, and leads workshops at theatres across the country.

Recenzii

Infinitely touching...a mature and tender play. [Norris] is an authentic new voice.
Barney Norris's first full-length play is astonishingly accomplished. Norris is a perceptive and humane craftsman...he has created an aching love story. He is a talent to watch.
...an absolute beauty, by turns funny, tender and desperately sad. There is great richness and an almost poetic resonance in the writing so that we can almost see the play of light across their fields and apprehend the jolting dislocation of dementia. It is much harder to write interestingly about happiness than it is about misery, but Norris often does just that.
It's a hefty subject - the way dementia destroys people's minds and families - but Norris's excellent play deals with it with surprising lightness of touch and humour.
A tender, elegiac, beautifully written and observed play
Remember the name Barney Norris. He's outstanding.
Barney Norris's astonishingly accomplished debut.
An absolute beauty, by turns funny, tender and desperately sad.
'Infinitely touching. The real pleasure lies in discoveringan authentic new voice.'