Penhall, Joe

Birthday (Modern Plays)

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ISBN 13:
9781408172919
author:
Penhall, Joe
format:
Paperback
publisher:
Methuen Drama
language:
English
Publication Year:
2012
Pages:
96
Dimensions:
19.6 x 12.7 x 1 cm
Genre:
Art, Architecture & Photography,
Condition:
New
Availability:
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£16.34

Description

Birthday is a darkly comic and emotionally charged play that charts Ed and Lisa's experience in an NHS maternity ward. When the birth of their daughter should be one of the happiest days of their life, the reality is unsettling and tests their relationship to the core.

The play expertly weaves together wry observations on gender perceptions with a searing indictment of the NHS system. Penhall's writing is beautifully observed, at once vicious and tender, as he pitches a comic counterpoint to the visceral domestic drama that sutured to bigger issues of aspiration, sacrifice, who we are, how we communicate, and ultimately love.

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