Abigail Docherty

Sea and Land and Sky (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Set in 1916, three young women from the Scottish Women's Hospital are sent to the Russian front to support the war effort. Ailsa is working class and determined to make an impression on her superiors, Millicent is a self-confessed hedonist and Lily is searching for her lost husband. Unprepared for what they witness, each must find a way of coping as they fight to survive an experience that will change them forever.

Poetic, visionary and startlingly written, Abigail Docherty's historical play is based on actual diaries of young Scottish nurses who experienced the Great War. Often darkly funny and raw in its emotions, Sea and Land and Sky is a gripping and sensual tale of youth, war, memory - and the power of love.

Sea and Land and Sky is boldly inventive, blackly comic, and starkly savage.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 96
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. März 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781408140567
• Artikelnr.: 40468026

Autorenporträt

Abigail Docherty's plays for stage include Room (Mayfesto Theatre Festival, The Tron, 2010; New Works New Worlds Festival, The Arches, 2009); One Thousand Paper Cranes (Developed with Lu Kemp, Bank of Scotland Imaginate International Children's Theatre Festival, 2010; Inspiration Festival, The Tron, 2009); Molly and John (Fleming Scottish Art Collection, 2007); Goblin Market (Southwark Playhouse, 2005). In 2009 she was mentored by Iain Finlay Macleod as part of the Playwrights' Studio Scotland's Mentorship Scheme. Plays for BBC Radio Four include: Listen to my Inside Mind (a winner in the BBC Radio Drama Young Playwrights' Festival), Goblin Market (nominated for the Prix Marulic), Floral Facts and Floral Fictions, and Ursula. Her short film Lazarus has been screened at film festivals nationally and internationally.