Description
The first play collection from Anders Lustgarten, "perhaps Britain's most visible and visibly engaged political playwright" (Time Out London), containing plays from the start of his career up to 2015 with the most recent play in the collection, Shrapnel. The volume includes an introduction by the playwright.
About the Author
Anders Lustgarten is Pearson Playwright-in-Residence at the Finborough Theatre, where his first two plays, The Insurgents (2007) and Enduring Freedom (2008), were produced. Other work includes The Punishment Stories, (shortlisted for the 2007 Verity Bargate Award), an adaptation of Slawomir Mrozek's The Police (BAC 2007), The Sugar-Coated Bullets of the Bourgeoisie (2010) for the National Theatre Studio and If You Don't Let Us Dream Then We Won't Let You Sleep (Royal Court, 2013). Anders is a political activist, has taught on Death Row, been arrested by the Turkish secret police, and holds a PhD in Chinese politics from the University of California. He also won the inaugural Harold Pinter Playwrights Award with a commission from the Royal Court in 2011.
Reviews
Anders Lustgarten is the most internationally minded dramatist working in Britain today. . . . short, sharp play . . . the play makes its point with a controlled ferocity. Lustgarten works like a movie-maker. * Guardian on "Shrapnel" *
Lustgarten's disgust is bracing as he begs to differ, big-time, from David Cameron . . . Lustgarten is right to castigate the cosiness of much political drama * Independent on "If You Don't Let Us Dream, We Won't Let You Sleep" *
Set in the near future, Lustgarten's play has a feverish intensity . . . Black Jesus is absorbing and strikingly succinct * Evening Standard on "Black Jesus" *
Though no play can "beat" the BNP, this play confirms it would be crazy for theatre to bury its head in the sand * Guardian on "A Day At the Racists" *
Book Information
ISBN 9781350005938
Author Anders Lustgarten
Format Paperback
Page Count 360
Imprint Methuen Drama
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 290g