Penhall Plays: 2: Blue/Orange; Dumb Show; Wild Turkey by Penhall, Joe

Penhall Plays: 2: Blue/Orange; Dumb Show; Wild Turkey (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780713689433)

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Penhall Plays: 2: Blue/Orange; Dumb Show; Wild Turkey by Penhall, Joe

Penhall Plays: 2: Blue/Orange; Dumb Show; Wild Turkey

$30.95
Penhall Plays: 2: Blue/Orange; Dumb Show; Wild Turkey by Penhall, Joe

Penhall Plays: 2: Blue/Orange; Dumb Show; Wild Turkey

$30.95
Format: Paperback
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Penhall's 1994 play Some Voices was described as 'the most thrilling playwriting debut in years' by the Sunday Times. He has consistently lived up to and exceeded that early promise as the plays in this second volume of his work testify. Characterised by a taut mood, a grappling with moral dilemmas, and tough, eloquent dialogue, punctuated by outrageously comic moments, the plays in this volume are:

Blue/Orange: An incendiary tale of race, madness and power set in a psychiatric hospital. 'Britain's best new play since Michael Frayn's Copenhagen ... thrillingly original' Financial Times
Dumb Show sees TV star Barry caught in a tense game of manipulation and entrapment in this satire on the fame game and the media industry: 'Penhall brings the same sharpness and wit to Dumb Show that he did to his hugely successful Blue/Orange' The Times
Wild Turkey (1993): a characteristically taut work about the acrimonious relationships of people in a late-night burger bar.
'More than any of his peers Penhall has shown a rare aptitude for confronting headline issues of the day, using his gift of the gab as a dramatist to interrogate their underlying complexities and contradictions' Daily Telegraph

Author: Joe Penhall
ISBN-10: 0713689439
ISBN-13: 9780713689433
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 02/01/2008
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 7.83h x 5.13w x 0.71d
By Joe Penhall
By Joe Penhall
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Award-winning writer Joe Penhall was described by The
Financial Times as 'one of the finest playwrights of his generation.' His debut
at the Royal Court, Some Voices, won the John Whiting Award for best new play.
His National Theatre play Blue/Orange won an Olivier Award, an Evening
Standard Award and the Critics Circle Award for Best Play. Joe wrote and
produced the BAFTA winning BBC serial Moses
Jones and his feature film of Some Voices starred Daniel Craig and
premiered in competition at the Cannes Film festival . This was followed
by Enduring Love, also starring Daniel Craig, based on Ian McEwan's
novel; and his adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's novel, The Road, starring
Charlize Theron and Viggo Mortensen, which premiered in competition at the
Venice Film Festival in 2009.

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