Kim Wiltshire

The Value of Nothing

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A satire about the nature of well-funded community projects which misuse the arts to get people off the dole.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Aurora Metro Books
• Seitenzahl: 80
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 126mm x 7mm
• Gewicht: 90g
• ISBN-13: 9781911501954
• ISBN-10: 191150195X
• Artikelnr.: 50858299

Autorenporträt

Kim is a writer and also a lecturer and Programme Leader for Creative Writing at Edge Hill University. Her plays include Joy With Child (2010) for Organised Chaos, The Loser (2009) at Camden People's theatre as well as a range of plays for young people for Activ8 at Bolton Octagon, Lime Arts and Health, Lets Go Global and Mothers Against Violence, and Burnley Youth Theatre - including Polarised in 2003, the first play about the Burnley riots in 2001 and the first play she had ever written! In 2013 she was part of a North West co-operative of playwrights called the Alligator Club, creating pop-up theatre, and she co-wrote and curated Blackout at The Dukes in Lancaster and Pages From My Songbook at The Royal Exchange in Manchester. In 2014 she toured the first Laid Bare show, Project XXX, which she co-wrote with Paul Hine. In 2015 she was part of the Royal Exchange's Next Stages group and was commissioned to write one of the monologues for the first Come Closer event, which was called Triple the Price of a Fruit Cake. She lives with her husband and two sons in Manchester.