Legend of Ned Ludd

A powerful and innovative play about work, automation and capitalism's impact, premiered at the Liverpool Everyman in 2024.

About the author

Joe Ward Munrow is a playwright from Deptford, south-east London, who now lives in Liverpool. His plays include: The Legend of Ned Ludd (Liverpool Everyman, 2024); Screaming Heart, winner of the Mercury Weinberger Playwriting Prize; Blue (Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and Gate Theatre, London); Held (Liverpool Playhouse Studio, 2012; shortlisted for Royal National Theatre Playwright's Award); The Laundry (Brockley Jack, 2011; winner of the Brockley Jack's Write Now Award and the Commended Prize in BBC's Alfred Bradley Bursary Award 2011).

​His radio plays include The Busker (BBC Radio 4, 2016; selected for BBC Radio 4's Pick of the Week).

He was the winner of the inaugural Robert Holman Grant Award in 2025.

Summary

A powerful and innovative play about work, automation and capitalism's impact, premiered at the Liverpool Everyman in 2024.

Product details

• Authors: Joe Ward Munrow
• Publisher: Hern, Nick Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.04.2024
• EAN: 9781839043208
• ISBN: 978-1-83904-320-8
• No. of pages: 144
• Series: NHB Modern Plays
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; DRAMA / General, Modern and contemporary plays (c 1900 onwards), Plays, Playscripts