Description
A poignant and contemporary monologue play about memory, love and spaceships.
About the Author
Al Smith read English Literature at Edinburgh University. He has been a Pearson Playwright in Residence at the Finborough Theatre and participated in the Paines Plough/Channel 4 Future Perfect Scheme. He is a graduate of the BBC Writers Academy and has been a broadcast Hot Shot. In 2012 Al won the BFI Wellcome Trust Screenwriting Prize. In 2017 his radio series Life Lines won gold for Best Fictional Storytelling at the ARIAS, the Radio Academy Awards and he was nominated for the Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright at the 2017 Evening Standard Theatre Awards.
Reviews
This razor-sharp look at our post-Brexit and politically calamitous world is a triumph * Times (on Diary of a Madman) *
Al Smith knows how to set up and detonate a joke. He has a wicked, inky sense of humour * The Stage (on Diary of a Madman) *
Book Information
ISBN 9781350138384
Author Al Smith
Format Paperback
Page Count 64
Imprint Methuen Drama
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 62g