The Bomb - Couverture souple

Dyer, Kevin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 095469127X ISBN 13 : 9780954691271

Editeur : Aurora Metro Books, 2005

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

Dyer shows us a suited Keenan - going about the lethal business of installing a bomb beneath a hotel bath. Interwoven with these scenes are exchanges - 20 years later - between Elizabeth and her impatient teenage daughter: their holiday plans are blown apart when a phone call summons Elizabeth to meet her dad's killer. A third strand shows us the younger Elizabeth and her preoccupied father snatching moments together on the eve of the bombing. By using a fractured time-scheme, Dyer hardwires the tension so that it builds to a double-climax - the eventual encounter between first-hand perpetrator and second-generation victim precedes the long-awaited explosion. Everything takes place on a violently angled, debris-strewn stage: it's as if, after all these years, the dust still hasn't settled. 'But he was my daddy,' Elizabeth says, simply, in the face of the IRA man's convoluted rationale; that drop of frozen innocence could melt the hardest heart. --The Telegraph

This is story telling at its best... --Time Out

...an emotionally explosive drama... --The Guardian

Biographie de l'auteur

Kevin Dyer has over 30 commissioned plays behind him - for radio, for young people's audiences, arts centres, rural tours, as well as a large-scale community play. He is a published poet and has been a magazine and newspaper journalist, a reviewer and a leader of many creative writing sessions. As a director, he has produced dozens of plays all over the UK. His celebrated production of 'Walking the Tightrope' played in venues across the UK, Canada and Europe and was invited to the Royal National Theatre. Kevin also wrote 'The Monster Under the Bed', for Polka Theatre, which won the Writers' Guild Best Children's Play Award. Aurora Metro have published 'The Monster Under the Bed' and 'The Iranian Feast' by the same playwright.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Aurora Metro Books
• Date d'édition: 2005
• ISBN 10: 095469127X
• ISBN 13: 9780954691271
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 88