Shelagh Stephenson

The Long Road (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

After a sell-out run earlier this year, this topical and powerful play returns to Soho Theatre.
A programme text edition published in conjunction with The Synergy
Theatre Project in association with The Forgiveness Project and Soho
Theatre, The Long Road runs from 10 - 29 November 2008.

'Mary wants us to talk about the girl that killed our son. I want to wipe her off the face of the earth'

In the aftermath of Danny's pointless murder, his family struggles to find meaning and forgiveness.

The Long Road evolved out of a period of research with
prisoners by Synergy Theatre Project, in collaboration with The
Forgiveness Project and award-winning playwright Shelagh Stephenson.

Synergy Theatre Project works through theatre with
offenders and ex-offenders towards resettlement and rehabilitation
whilst placing the wider issues surrounding imprisonment in the public
arena. The Forgiveness Project encourages and empowers people to explore the nature of forgiveness and alternatives to revenge.

'It is a rare play that hits the news with such cruel
topicality . . . Stephenson offers a powerful, illuminating piece of
dramatic fiction' Nicholas de Jongh, Evening Standard

'Rare and remarkable . . . this is a drama that cries out for attention - and richly rewards it' The Telegraph

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 80
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. März 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781408141274
• Artikelnr.: 40467976

Autorenporträt

Shelagh Stephenson was born in Northumberland and read drama at Manchester University. Her first stage play, The Memory of Water, premiered at Hampstead Theatre in 1996 and subsequently transferred to the West End, where it won an Olivier Award for Best Comedy in 2000. Her second play, An Experiment With An Air Pump, opened at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester. It was joint recipient of the Peggy Ramsay Award and later transferred to the Hampstead Theatre. Both plays subsequently ran at New York's Manhattan Theatre Club. Her third play, Ancient Lights, was produced at Hampstead Theatre in December 2000. She has written several radio plays, including the award-winning Five Kinds of Silence, which she adapted for the stage and which was presented at the Lyric, Hammersmith in 2000. Her screen adaptation of The Memory of Water was released in spring 2002 with the title Before You Go.

Rezensionen

'Shelagh Stephenson's thought-provoking play examines the fallout of a murder... You admire the naturalistic dialogue, the psychological acuity, the wonderful acting.' Sunday Times (16 November 2008)