Classphemy - Couverture souple

Cribbin, Tina

 
9781909360686: Classphemy

Synopsis

AN AUSTERE LANDSCAPE creatively painted with poetry that brings ""truth to thebone"" of living live in inner city Manchester today. It describes how a community stillsurvives now it has become prime land for the universities and developers as the cranes ofcorporate Manchester loom ever closer. It's a snapshot of a time and place from a resident who isstriving to capture Hulme's soul that shaped her life and captured her heart.Tina Cribbin throws a light on the injustices of the modern welfare system, tackling issues suchas loneliness, mental health, poverty, gentrification and the imposition of middle class values on aworking class population. The Hulme born and bred playwright turns her hand to poetry with devastating effect.

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À propos de l?auteur

Tina Cribbin was born in 1967, the fourth child of six in an Irish family who originated in Dublin and moved to Moss Side in the late 50s then to the infamous Hulme Crescents in 1970. Having left school with few expectations and fewer qualifications, she was employed in a number of jobs from cleaner and tarot card reader to Butlins shop assistant and chalet maid. Having decided to return to education, she began working in the community starting as a youth worker until she became a Connexions advisor then a social worker. Then in her own words, "Suddenly things seemed to happen at the right time; I was involved in an amazing project with One Manchester and the Royal Exchange who were bringing art into tower blocks. I began to write small pieces for a performance which led me to writing most of a play entitled 'Can You Hear Me From Up Here?' which was performed at the Royal Exchange and Home Theatre. I had such an amazing time I didnt want it to end so I carried on writing." Tina has since written a play about older Irish men in Hulme and their relationship with the Salutation pub which was entered for the Bruntwood Prize.

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