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Dennis Kelly: Plays Two Dennis Kelly

Dennis Kelly: Plays Two By Dennis Kelly

Dennis Kelly: Plays Two by Dennis Kelly


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Summary

The second volume collecting Dennis Kelly's plays, including Our Teacher's a Troll, Orphans, Taking Care of Baby, DNA and The Gods Weep.

Dennis Kelly: Plays Two Summary

Dennis Kelly: Plays Two by Dennis Kelly

Dennis Kelly is one of the UK's finest contemporary dramatists. This second volume of his work collects together: Our Teacher's a Troll, Orphans, Taking Care of Baby, DNA and The Gods Weep. Also features a foreword by journalist, author and critic, Aleks Sierz.


Without doubt, Kelly is one of the most multi-talented British playwrights to emerge in the last decade - Aleks Sierz (from the foreword)

Dennis Kelly: Plays Two Reviews

(On Our Teacher's a Troll) 'A celebration of naughtiness and questioning, it's a raucous, skin-crawling treat' - The Guardian

* The Guardian *

(On Our Teacher's a Troll) 'A hilarious dark fable' - The Herald

* The Herald *

(On Orphans) 'A cast-iron understanding of the morally bankrupt way we live now' - Daily Telegraph

* Daily Telegraph *

(On Taking Care of Baby) 'In its examination of how stories are told, is an imaginatively realised and moving story' - The Guardian

* The Guardian *

(On DNA) 'A taut, compelling thriller and a modern-day spin on Lord of the Flies, exploring group behaviour and moral equivocation' - Financial Times

* Financial Times *

(On The Gods Weep) 'Admirable in its ambition and daring, in its willingness to take on huge themes such as destruction and redemption' - Financial Times

* Financial Times *

About Dennis Kelly

Dennis Kelly's plays include Debris (Theatre503/Battersea Arts Centre, 2003), Osama the Hero (Hampstead Theatre, 2004), After the End (Paines Plough/Traverse Theatre/Bush Theatre, 2005), Love and Money (Young Vic/Manchester Royal Exchange, 2006), Taking Care of Baby (Hampstead Theatre/Birmingham Repertory, 2006), DNA (National Theatre, 2008), Orphans (Paines Plough/Traverse Theatre/Soho Theatre/Birmingham Rep, 2009), The Gods Weep (Royal Shakespeare Company, 2010), The Ritual Slaughter of Gorge Mastromas (Royal Court, 2013), Matilda the Musical (Royal Shakespeare Company, 2010) and Pinocchio (National Theatre, 2017). His plays have been performed all over the world and have been translated into nearly thirty languages. For television he co-wrote and created Pulling (Silver River/BBC 3) and has written and created Utopia (Kudos) for Channel Four.

Table of Contents

Dennis Kelly is an internationally acclaimed writer with his plays performed in over thirty countries. Stage plays include Debris, Osama the Hero, After the End, Love and Money, Taking Care of Baby, DNA, Orphans, The Gods Weep and The Ritual Slaughter of Gorge Mastromas. For television he co wrote and created BBC's Pulling and has written and created Utopia for Channel Four. He also wrote the book for Matilda the Musical for which he won the 2012 Olivier Award for Best New Musical, & has recently awarded a Tony Award.

Additional information

GOR009237206
9781783190126
1783190124
Dennis Kelly: Plays Two by Dennis Kelly
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
20131120
312
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