Two Plays for Young People - Softcover

Ridley, Philip

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571196241 ISBN 13: 9780571196241

Verlag: Faber & Faber, 1998

Inhaltsangabe

This book contains two wonderful plays for young people by award-winning playwright, screenwriter and novelist Philip Ridley. In Fairytaleheart, two fifteen-year-olds confront their loneliness by exploring the language of theatre itself in a derelict community centre. In Sparkleshark, a young boy on top of a council estate tower block uses storytelling like a modern Scheherazade to stop a gang beating him up.

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Philip Ridley was born in the East End of London and studied Fine Art at St Martin's School of Art. As a writer his credits include nine children's novels - including Krindlekrax (1991), winner of the Smarties Prize, Kasper in the Glitter (1994), nominated for the Whitbread Prize, and Scribbleboy (1997), shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal - and two pieces for younger children. His stage plays are The Pitchfork Disney (1991), The Fastest Clock in the Universe (1992), which won the Meyer-Whitworth Prize, a Time Out Award, and both the Critics' Circle and the Evening Standard Theatre Awards for Most Promising Playwright, Ghost from a Perfect Place (1994), Vincent River (2000), Krindlekrax (premi red by the Birmingham Rep in June 2002) and three plays for young people: Fairytaleheart (Hampstead Theatre, 1998), Sparkleshark (Royal National Theatre, 1999) and Brokenville (2001), which receiv

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Faber & Faber
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0571196241
• ISBN 13: 9780571196241
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 144
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Uwe Hübener; 26632959738; uhuebener@gmx.de; ; Waldstraße 4; Berzhahn; Rlp; 56459; Deutschland