Millions of people cycle to work every day. And every week, some of them don't make it home.

One Tuesday morning, Isabelle packs her lunch box into her pannier, kisses her young daughter goodbye, and sets off on her bike through Hackney. What happens along the way is at once shocking, inconceivable, and terrifyingly ordinary.

Based on a true story, The White Bike is an affecting play about what happens when our world is turned upside down. It was premiered in 2017 at The Space, London, in a production directed by Lily McLeish.

Tamara von Werthern is the founder and producer of Fizzy Sherbet, a new-writing initiative for women writers from across the world. This edition also includes her short plays Baby Dolls and The Village Church.

About the Author
Tamara von Werthern is a playwright, screenwriter and producer. As a playwright, her work includes The White Bike (The Space, London, 2017) and the short plays Baby Dolls (Hackney Attic, 2015) and The Village Church. Her work has also been shown at the Royal Court, the Arcola Theatre, Burdall's Yard, Bath, the Lion & Unicorn Theatre, London, The White Bear Theatre, London, and the Pleasance Theatre, Edinburgh, as well as a number of site-specific performances with her own theatre company Para-Site Productions and Plays Rough London. Her writing has been long-listed for the Papatango Prize and BBC Writersroom Comedy Room. For screen, her film I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire (an Elias Production) won the Best Screenplay Lift-Off Season Award 2019, a Lift-Off London Special Mention Award and has been screened in Cannes, London and Berlin. She is a contributor to Letters To The Earth edited by Emma Thompson. She is Theatre:Re's dramaturg for their latest show BIRTH (on tour). Her poetry is published in various magazines, and she has also published two crime novels in Germany and is working on the third in the series.

Reviews

'A beautiful, heartfelt play - a personal story told with a gentle touch'

* thespyinthestalls.com *

'An important show to watch and share'

* West End Wilma *



Book Information
ISBN 9781848426832
Author Tamara von Werthern
Format Paperback
Page Count 96
Imprint Nick Hern Books
Publisher Nick Hern Books