Juliet Gilkes Romero

At the Gates of Gaza (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The 2009 winner of the Best Play Award at the Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award (Birmingham Rep and UK tour '08), published for the first time to coincide with the author's new play Upper Cut.

"This is my War. My War for Civilization. My War for Freedom. My Life. My Race. My Place. My Honour. My Home."

Stranded in the battlefields of the Holy Land during the Great War, a battalion of West Indian volunteers fight for the Empire, the King and the Mother Land.Their long search for identity and honour falls apart as the fragile hopes of young lives, both black and white, explode and shatter as betrayal and race take their toll.

At the Gates of Gaza is a highly charged, emotional and gripping look at a world in the midst of change.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 96
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781783196722
• Artikelnr.: 42153097

Autorenporträt

Juliet Gilkes Romero is a playwright and journalist. She has reported for the BBC from countries including Ethiopia, Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Her most recent work is for the TV series Soon Gone: A Windrush Chronicle (BBC4), co-produced with Sir Lenny Henry's Douglas Road Productions. Previously for the RSC she co-created Day of the Living, which played at The Other Place as part of the RSC's Mischief Festival in 2018. She is the recipient of the Roland Rees Bursary 2019 named in honour of the co-founder of the Alfred Fagon Award and her play At The Gates of Gaza won the Writers' Guild Best Play Award in 2009. Juliet has also written a political drama for a Limited TV Series. Her play The Whip was awarded the Alfred Fagon Award in 2020.