Description
A witty and heartfelt look at a family falling apart - and pulling together - when life doesn't turn out quite the way they imagined. Joint Winner of the Critics' Circle Most Promising Playwright Award, 2013.
It's Andy Griffith's twenty-first birthday. Not that he's counting. But his mother Carol is. Counting the minutes until he arrives, counting the unexpected guests, counting the times that something like this has happened before.
Rory Kinnear's first play, The Herd was first performed at the Bush Theatre, London, in September 2013.
About the Author
Rory Kinnear is an actor and playwright. He has played Hamlet and Iago at the National Theatre, Angelo in Measure for Measure at the Almeida, and Bolingbroke in Richard II for the BBC. The Herd is his first play.
Reviews
'Remarkable... all the roles represent gifts for actors'
* Telegraph *'An accomplished debut... a vivid and unsentimental portrait of domestic life, flecked with wry humour'
* Evening Standard *'Grips like a vice'
* Whatsonstage.com *'Witty, agonising and eye-opening... a weave of painful insights and playful humour'
* Independent *Awards
Joint winner of Critics' Circle Most Promising Playwright Award 2013.
Book Information
ISBN 9781848423343
Author Rory Kinnear
Format Paperback
Page Count 104
Imprint Nick Hern Books
Publisher Nick Hern Books
