Description
The first play collection from multi-award-winning British writer Rory Mullarkey celebrates his diverse career as a writer with five diverse and challenging dramatic works.
About the Author
Rory Mullarkey's original plays include Pity, The Wolf from the Door (Royal Court Theatre), Saint George and the Dragon (Royal National Theatre), Each Slow Dusk (Pentabus Theatre/UK Tour), Cannibals, Single Sex (Royal Exchange, Manchester), The Grandfathers (National Theatre Connections, then Bristol Old Vic/National Theatre) and On the Threshing Floor (Heat & Light Company, Hampstead Theatre). His adaptations/translations include The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov (Bristol Old Vic/Manchester Royal Exchange), The Oresteia by Aeschylus (Shakespeare's Globe) and Remembrance Day by Aleksey Scherbak (Royal Court). He has written the libretti for The Skating Rink by David Sawer (Garsington Opera), Coraline by Mark-Anthony Turnage (Royal Opera House) and The Way Back Home by Joanna Lee (ENO/Young Vic). He has won the Abraham Woursell Prize (co-winner 2017), the James Tait Black Prize for Drama (2014), the George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright (co-winner, 2014), the Harold Pinter Commission for the Royal Court (2014) and the Pearson Bursary for the Royal Exchange, Manchester (2011).
Reviews
Mullarkey has considerable talent...exhilarating * Daily Telegraph *
There's a fierce freshness in his writing that suggests he's a young playwright to watch * Evening Standard *
Mullarkey certainly has an original voice * Financial Times *
Funny, provocative and engagingly eccentric * Time Out *
Book Information
ISBN 9781350090774
Author Rory Mullarkey
Format Paperback
Page Count 304
Imprint Methuen Drama
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 244g