Prasanna Puwanarajah

Double Feature: Two (NHB Modern Plays) (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 contains:

• Nightwatchman by Prasanna Puwanarajah
• There is a War by Tom Basden

In Nightwatchman 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 is 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.

'sharp, funny and fizzing with invention' - The Times

'marvellously incisive' - Independent

'a sharp satire with an irresistibly silly strain' - Financial Times

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nick Hern Books
• Seitenzahl: 120
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781780013770
• Artikelnr.: 41838293

Autorenporträt

TOM BASDEN is an award-winning comedian (IF.COMEDY Award for Best Newcomer 2007), writer and performer (Cowards, BBC). Previous writing credits include Party (winner of an Edinburgh Fringe First award, 2009) and his short film The One and Only Herb McGwyer Plays Wallis Island (winner: UK Film Council Kodak Award for Best British Short Film). He lives in London. PRASANNA PUWANARAJAH is a writer and actress and has appeared at the NT in Emperor and Galilean, Hamlet and London Assurance.