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Simon Stephens Plays 5 - Wastwater; Birdland; Blindsided; Song From Far Away; Heisenberg (Paperback)
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Simon Stephens Plays 5 - Wastwater; Birdland; Blindsided; Song From Far Away; Heisenberg (Paperback)
Series: Contemporary Dramatists
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"Stephens writes dramas set in uncaring, uncompromising worlds,
whose characters speak in a language at once naturalistic and yet
artificially pared-down and whose uncertain attempts to assert
their own identities sometimes lead to gratuitous and brutal acts
of violence." - Financial Times A fifth collection of plays by one
of Britain's most prolific contemporary playwrights, Simon
Stephens, charting his work from 2011-2016, ranging from London's
Royal Court Theatre, Manchester's Royal Exchange and Broadway.
Wastwater (2011) "Metaphoric, allusive, and thoroughly disturbing
in its evocation of suspicion and uncertainty, Wastwater is a
thought-provoking play whose quiet intensity stays with you for
days - its effect is like that of a ugly stone dropped into a pool,
which results in constant ripples of dirty water lapping at your
subconscious" (Aleks Sierz) Birdland (2014) "Mega-fame and
limitless cash can turn a man into a monster, and Simon Stephens's
new play excellently evokes its hero's spiritually shrunken world"
(Michael Billington, Guardian) Blindsided (2014) "the dialogue has
a rare quality of moment-by-moment intensity" (Telegraph) Song From
Far Away (2015) "a meditative monologue - a searching study of
impotently self-aware emotional insufficiency" (Independent)
Heisenberg (2016) "Mr. Stephens ... is an uncannily subtle
dramatist who never wears his depths on the surface ... he probes
cliches until they fall apart, before reassembling them into solid
but transformed shapes, reminding us why such cliches have become
enduring elements of our collective mythology." (Ben Brantley, New
York Times)
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