Description
A heart-wrenching tale of the bond between two elderly twins, this ethereally beautiful play is elegiac, graceful and deeply moving.
About the Author
Tim Price is a former journalist from the South Wales valleys. As well as writing for stage and television, he hosts a new writing night in a Mongolian Yurt in Cardiff called Dirty Protest. Tim was one of eight candidates to be selected for the BBC Drama Writer's Academy 2009 and was awarded a The50 bursary in 2006 as one of the best 50 emerging writers in the UK. His plays include For Once (Pentabus Theatre) and Salt, Root and Roe (Donmar Warehouse/Trafalgar Studios).
Reviews
Twelve hours after leaving the theatre, I can't get the piece out of my head. Its mixture of the whimsical and the shocking, windy Welsh garrulousness and sudden moments of intense feeling, is undoubtedly distinctive. There may be more than a touch of Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood in the play's more poetic passages, with stories of mermen and villages under the sea, but it is also a piercing account of sisterly love and the agonies of Alzheimer's . . . It captures both the horrors of old age and the ties of family love with unmistakable compassion. -- Charles Spencer * Daily Telegraph *
Price's writing is amusingly alert to the absurdities that surround this heartbreaking situation... Just as Price's script seamlessly combines the dotty and the distressing, so it is able at once to invoke poetic marine myths and hilariously debunk them. -- Paul Taylor * Independent *
Tim Price is a young Welsh writer who got glowing reviews for his first play, For Once. This new piece...is a quietly impressive follow-up that confirms Price's promise...Price is a talent to watch. -- Michael Billington * Guardian *
Book Information
ISBN 9781408172032
Author Tim Price
Format Paperback
Page Count 96
Imprint Methuen Drama
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 99g