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Zusatztext Edgily enchanting and beautifully played by all, this is an exquisite gem Informationen zum Autor Nell Leyshon is a novelist and playwright, born in Glastonbury and now based in Dorset. She has written a number of plays for BBC Radios 3 and 4. Her stage plays include Comfort Me with Apples , which won the Evening Standard Most Promising Playwright award in 2005 and an adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's short story Don't Look Now . In 2010, she became the first female playwright to be commissioned to write for Shakespeare's Globe since 1599. Klappentext Nominated for an Olivier Award 2022 "I'll tell you one more thing. I got more songs in my head than I ever told you. I got enough to sing for days..." 1903, Somerset. Rooted in the land where she has lived her entire life, Louie Hooper's mind overflows with its songs - more than 300 of them passed down from her mother. Cecil Sharp, a composer visiting from London, fears England's folk songs will be lost forever and sets out on a mission to transcribe each and every one. He believes Louie's music should speak not just for this place but for the whole of England. Nell Leyshon's Olivier Award-nominated play with songs originally heard on BBC Radio before a sold-out, highly acclaimed run at London's Hampstead Theatre. The production was revived in June 2022 due to popular demand. Vorwort Nell Leyshon's Olivier Award-nominated 'charming, touching' ( The Observer ) new play with songs, inspired by a true story Zusammenfassung Nominated for an Olivier Award 2022 "I'll tell you one more thing. I got more songs in my head than I ever told you. I got enough to sing for days..." 1903, Somerset. Rooted in the land where she has lived her entire life, Louie Hooper’s mind overflows with its songs – more than 300 of them passed down from her mother. Cecil Sharp, a composer visiting from London, fears England’s folk songs will be lost forever and sets out on a mission to transcribe each and every one. He believes Louie’s music should speak not just for this place but for the whole of England. Nell Leyshon's Olivier Award-nominated play with songs originally heard on BBC Radio before a sold-out, highly acclaimed run at London's Hampstead Theatre. The production was revived in June 2022 due to popular demand. ...

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Authors Nell Leyshon, Leyshon Nell
Publisher Methuen Drama
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 24.06.2022
 
EAN 9781350356733
ISBN 978-1-350-35673-3
No. of pages 80
Dimensions 128 mm x 196 mm x 8 mm
Series Modern Plays
Subjects Fiction > Poetry, drama
Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet

DRAMA / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / Playwriting, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Modern and contemporary plays (c 1900 onwards), Plays, Playscripts, Literary studies: plays and playwrights

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