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Informationen zum Autor Chris Dunkley's The Precariat premiered as part of the Finborough Theatre's Vibrant - A Festival of Finborough Playwrights in November 2012. His play Mirita premiered at the Finborough Theatre, was named London Time Out Critics' Choice, and transferred Off Broadway to the Cherry Lane Theatre, New York City, alongside his short play Lisa Says . Other theatre includes Almost Blue (Riverside Studios), How to Tell the Truth (Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough), Lucy is a Minger (Spinney Hill Theatre, Northampton) and The Festival (Wimbledon Studio Theatre). Radio includes The All Colour Vegetarian Cookbook and The Architects , both for the BBC. Chris has been Writer in Residence at Royal and Derngate Theatres, Northampton, and Writer on Attachment at the Royal Court Theatre. He was the 2002 winner of the International Student Playscript Competition and winner of the PMA writers' award in 2001. Klappentext 'She's got no business being a junkie. She had looks, brains... Everythin' goin' for her. Whereas you, Andy. You deserve addiction.' Andy and Jen have just moved on to a new farm, returning to the village they grew up in. The plan is to plant parsnips, breed pigs and live off the fat of the land. But escaping their shared demons was never going to be easy. While the couple make a fresh start, trust, responsibility and bio-dynamic farming challenge their rehabilitation in this darkly comic love story. Hope and optimism are tested in Smallholding , a fizzing new play by Chris Dunkley. Zusammenfassung A brutally honest play about the affects of drug addiction and co-dependency on a young couple trying to start a new life.
