By A Thread' & 'The Raft'

Informationen zum Autor Lucy Gough has written extensively for radio and stage and was a scriptwriter for ten years from 1996 for Hollyoaks. Her work includes Catherine Wheel (1991, toured by Scallywag Theatre in Education Company); Our Lady Of Shadows (1994, BBC Radio 3); As To Be Naked (Is the best disguise) (1994, Theatr Clwyd Theatre in Education), shortlisted BBC Wales Writer of the Year Award 1994 and John Whiting Award 1994; Haul (1994); Head (1996, by BBC Radio 4); Wolfskin (1997); Prophetess of Exeter (1997, BBC World Service); The Red Room (1999, BBC Radio 4); The Mermaid's Tail (1999, BBC Radio 4); Judith Beheading Holofernes (2000, BBC Radio 4); Mapping The Soul (2001, Aberystwyth Arts Centre); Gryfhead (2003, Aberystwyth Arts Centre), Wuthering Heights (2003, BBC Radio 4); Mapping The Soul 2 (2005, BBC Radio 4) The White Hare (2008, as part of BBC4 Extra's Man in Black series), also adapted as a short film (2010). A stage version of Wuthering Heights was commissioned and toured from Aberystwyth Arts Centre in 2011 while her radio drama Western Stars was broadcast on Radio 4 in 2011, and BBC Wales in 2012. In 2010 she undertook a 3 month Granada Artists' Award in California and was awarded a Creative Wales Award from the Welsh Arts Council. She currently writes for the BBC drama series Doctors and is a creative research fellow at University of Wales Aberystwyth. Klappentext Two plays for secondary schools by WJEC playwright Two plays pitting characters in perilous situations to explore issues of responsibility, love, death and the instinct to survive.By a Thread: Four survivors struggle to flee the horrific reality of an apocalyptic war. As they retreat up the mountain, they discover conflict and change are inescapably woven into the thread of life: the young couple cannot stop arguing, the soldier refuses to part with his lost friend's head and the old lady would rather stay put and sew her quilt.The Raft: In prison, a despondent teenage mother watches herself sink deeper into the sea of her despair; but the soul seems reluctant and keeps drifting back up, and then her son Robbie starts calling to her ...A resource booklet on 'By a Thread' has been produced by the WJEC for use at Key Stage 3 by teachers of English. Features two plays: "By a Thread" explores the immediate experience of adolescent insecurity and issues of responsibility, love, jealousy and death; and "The Raft" - produced by BBC Radio 4 - offers a moving and daring exploration of a young mother's struggle to survive the desolation of prison and separation from her son. Sie hatte sich überlegt es ihm vielleicht während dergemeinsamen Osterferien in der Bretagne zu sagen. Es hing davonab, wie die Sache sich entwickeln würde. Sie wollte ihmnicht die Pistole auf die Brust setzen. Sie war bereit die volleVerantwortung zu übernehmen; sie war neunundzwanzig und altgenug ihr Leben in die Hand zu nehmen. Trotzdem hatte er ein Recht darauf, es zu erfahren. Ob er nundaran teilhaben wollte oder nicht lag an ihm. Wenn ihn der Gedankean ein Kind erschreckte, dann würden sich ihre Wege ohneGroll trennen. Sie hatte schon beschlossen ihn nicht um Unterhaltfür das Kind zu bitten. Sie würde das Kind alleineaufziehen. Andere Frauen, solche die sie bewunderte, hatten esauch getan und sie würde es ihnen gleichtun. Es machte ihr Sorgen, dass er vielleicht eine dieser Halbheitenvorschlagen könnte, zum Beispiel, dass sie das Kind bekommenwürde, ihre Beziehung aber auf diese leichtlebige Art, ohnegegenseitige Verpflichtungen, weiterlaufen sollte. Das, so hattesie sich überlegt, würde nicht funktionieren. Das Kindsollte einen richtigen Vater haben oder überhaupt keinen. Als sie an diesem Morgen ins Institut fuhr, sah man auf den St...

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Lucy Gough has written extensively for radio and stage and was a scriptwriter for ten years from 1996 for Hollyoaks. Her work includes Catherine Wheel (1991, toured by Scallywag Theatre in Education Company); Our Lady Of Shadows (1994, BBC Radio 3); As To Be Naked (Is the best disguise) (1994, Theatr Clwyd Theatre in Education), shortlisted BBC Wales Writer of the Year Award 1994 and John Whiting Award 1994; Haul (1994); Head (1996, by BBC Radio 4); Wolfskin (1997); Prophetess of Exeter (1997, BBC World Service); The Red Room (1999, BBC Radio 4); The Mermaid's Tail (1999, BBC Radio 4); Judith Beheading Holofernes (2000, BBC Radio 4); Mapping The Soul (2001, Aberystwyth Arts Centre); Gryfhead (2003, Aberystwyth Arts Centre), Wuthering Heights (2003, BBC Radio 4); Mapping The Soul 2 (2005, BBC Radio 4) The White Hare (2008, as part of BBC4 Extra's Man in Black series), also adapted as a short film (2010). A stage version of Wuthering Heights was commissioned and toured from Aberystwyth Arts Centre in 2011 while her radio drama Western Stars was broadcast on Radio 4 in 2011, and BBC Wales in 2012. In 2010 she undertook a 3 month Granada Artists' Award in California and was awarded a Creative Wales Award from the Welsh Arts Council. She currently writes for the BBC drama series Doctors and is a creative research fellow at University of Wales Aberystwyth.

Product details

• Authors: Michel Foucault, Lucy Gough, Gough Lucy
• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.01.2006
• EAN: 9780413775818
• ISBN: 978-0-413-77581-8
• No. of pages: 128
• Series: Methuen Drama Modern Plays; Modern Plays; Methuen Drama, Modern Plays
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; DRAMA / General, Plays, Playscripts, Plays, playscripts, drama