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"The seven plays are: Catherine Czerkawska's Wormwood, depicting a family caught up in the Chernobyl disaster; Ann Marie Di Mambro's Brothers of Thunder, in which a young man who's HIV-positive takes refuge with a Roman Catholic priest; Stephen Greenhorn's 'road movie f...

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Main Authors: Czerkawska, Catherine L. (Author), Di Mambro, Ann Marie (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London Hern 1998
Edition:1. publ. in Great Britain as an orig. paperback
Series:A Nick Hern book
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Summary:"The seven plays are: Catherine Czerkawska's Wormwood, depicting a family caught up in the Chernobyl disaster; Ann Marie Di Mambro's Brothers of Thunder, in which a young man who's HIV-positive takes refuge with a Roman Catholic priest; Stephen Greenhorn's 'road movie for the stage', Passing Places, in which two Motherwell lads steal a surfboard and head for the highlands; David Greig's One Way Street, where Flannery tells us his life story in the form of a guide to Berlin; Liz Lochhead's Quelques Fleurs, in which Verena and oilman husband Derek's childless marriage is unravelled; Linda McLean's One Good Beating, a blackly comic account of a brother and sister taking revenge on their violent father; and Iain Crichton Smith's Lazybed, in which Murdo, refusing to get out of bed, is visited by brother, neighbours, doctor, Death and Immanuel Kant..."--BOOK JACKET.
Item Description:Enth. u.a.: Wormwood / Catherine Czerkawska. Brothers of thunder / Ann Marie Di Mambro
Physical Description:XIII, 369 S.
ISBN:1854593838

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