Graeae Plays 1 - New Plays Redefining Disability

A unique, groundbreaking collection of six new plays that redefine disability selected and introduced by Dame Jenny Sealey.
Includes the Playtexts:
SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL BY RAY HARRISON GRAHAM
PEELING BY KAITE O'REILLY
SOFT VENGEANCE BY APRIL DE ANGELIS
FITTINGS: THE LAST FREAKSHOW BY MIKE KENNY
INTO THE MYSTIC BY PETER WOLF
HOUND BY MARIA OSHODI

About the author

April De Angelis's plays include Jumpy (Royal Court and West End), Wild East (Royal Court), A Laughing Matter (Out of Joint/NT/tour), The Warwickshire Testimony (RSC), The Positive Hour (Out of Joint/Hampstead/Old Vic; Sphinx), Headstrong (NT Shell Connections), Playhouse Creatures (Sphinx Theatre Company), Hush (Royal Court), Soft Vengeance (Graeae Theatre Company), Amongst Friends (Hampstead), The Life and Times of Fanny Hill (adapted from the James Cleland novel), Ironmistress (ReSisters Theatre Company), Crux (Aurora Metro Books) and Wuthering Heights (adapted from Emily Brontë's novel for Birmingham Rep). Her work for BBC Radio includes Visitants, The Outlander, which won the Writers' Guild Award 1992, and Cash Cows for the Woman's Hour serial. For opera: Flight with composer Jonathan Dove (Glyndebourne), and the libretto for Silent Twins (Almeida).

Product details

• Authors: April De Angelis, Ray Harrison Graham, Mike Kenny, Kaite O'Reilly, Katie O'Reilly, Maria Oshodi, Peter Wolf
• Assisted by: Cheryl Robson (Editor), Jenny Sealey (Editor)
• Publisher: Aurora Metro Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.02.2021
• EAN: 9780953675760
• ISBN: 978-0-9536757-6-0
• No. of pages: 340
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 210 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 441 g
• Series: Aurora New Plays
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet