Two Plays for Young People - Couverture souple

Ridley, Philip

 
9780571196241: Two Plays for Young People
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0571196241 ISBN 13 : 9780571196241
Editeur : Faber & Faber, 1998

Synopsis

This book contains two wonderful plays for young people by award-winning playwright, screenwriter and novelist Philip Ridley. In Fairytaleheart, two fifteen-year-olds confront their loneliness by exploring the language of theatre itself in a derelict community centre. In Sparkleshark, a young boy on top of a council estate tower block uses storytelling like a modern Scheherazade to stop a gang beating him up.

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À propos de l'auteur

Philip Ridley was born in the East End of London and studied Fine Art at St Martin's School of Art. As a writer his credits include nine children's novels - including Krindlekrax (1991), winner of the Smarties Prize, Kasper in the Glitter (1994), nominated for the Whitbread Prize, and Scribbleboy (1997), shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal - and two pieces for younger children. His stage plays are The Pitchfork Disney (1991), The Fastest Clock in the Universe (1992), which won the Meyer-Whitworth Prize, a Time Out Award, and both the Critics' Circle and the Evening Standard Theatre Awards for Most Promising Playwright, Ghost from a Perfect Place (1994), Vincent River (2000), Krindlekrax (premi red by the Birmingham Rep in June 2002) and three plays for young people: Fairytaleheart (Hampstead Theatre, 1998), Sparkleshark (Royal National Theatre, 1999) and Brokenville (2001), which receiv

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Éditeur
Faber & Faber
Date d'édition
1998
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0571196241
ISBN 13 
9780571196241
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
144
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Personne responsable
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