Rona Munro

The Maiden Stone (NHB Modern Plays) (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

A wild and fantastical tale set in nineteenth-century north-east Scotland.

Winner of the first ever Peggy Ramsay Award

Down-on-her-luck, out-of-work actress Harriet and her family are wandering the roads of Scotland looking for food, shelter, and the opportunity to perform. But they are not the only ones travelling the highways and byways - there's tinker and storyteller Bidie along with her family, always looking for a break; and the dangerously beguiling stranger Nick, whose presence on the road just might be more of a curse than a blessing...

'a wild rumbustious mix of fantasy and fable, it has all the rough edges and monstrous scope of a work of genius - frighteningly good' - Scotsman

'a vigorous and appealing play about the travails of Harriet, an early 19th-century actress, and her family - this play reveals the life of an actress as an astonishing test of physical stamina' - Observer

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nick Hern Books
• Seitenzahl: 96
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781780017853
• Artikelnr.: 45140912

Autorenporträt

Rona Munro has written extensively for stage, radio, film and television including the award-winning plays Iron (Traverse Theatre and Royal Court, London), Bold Girls (7:84 and Hampstead Theatre) and The Maiden Stone (Hampstead Theatre).

Other credits include The James Plays for the Edinburgh International Festival and National Theatre, The Last Witch for the Traverse Theatre and the Edinburgh International Festival, Long Time Dead for Paines Plough and the Drum Theatre Plymouth, The Indian Boy and Little Eagles for the Royal Shakespeare Company and Pandas for the Traverse in Edinburgh. She is the co-founder, with actress Fiona Knowles, of Scotland's oldest continuously performing, small-scale touring theatre company, The Msfits. Their one-woman shows have toured every year since 1986.

Film and television work includes the Ken Loach film Ladybird Ladybird, Aimee and Jaguar and television dramas Rehab (directed by Antonia Bird) and BAFTA-nominated Bumping the Odds for the BBC. She has also written many other single plays for television and contributed to series including Casualty and Dr Who. Most recently, she wrote the screenplay for Oranges and Sunshine, directed by Jim Loach and starring Emily Watson and Hugo Weaving.

She has contributed several radio plays to the Stanley Baxter Playhouse series on BBC Radio 4.