Blue Heart (NHB Modern Plays) - Softcover

Caryl Churchill

3.62

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9781854593276: Blue Heart (NHB Modern Plays)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1854593277 ISBN 13: 9781854593276

Publisher: Nick Hern Books, 1997

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A teasingly entertaining two-part drama from one of the UK's leading playwrights, first performed in a co-production by Out of Joint and the Royal Court.

Blue Heart consists of two related short plays in which nothing is what it seems:

Heart's Desire. The long-anticipated return of a daughter from Australia by her parents and aunt is rehearsed over and over with different variations and outcomes - some comic, some brutal, some simply astonishing.

Blue Kettle. Forty-year-old Derek is a con-man who sets out to convince a series of women that he is the son they gave up for adoption. But something catastrophic is happening which disrupts and destroys the very fabric of their world.

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Review:

The play of the year. --Independent

Substantial, provocative, immensely stylish works which create an unsettling mixture of wild laughter and profound unease... a major hit. --Telegraph

About the Author:

Caryl Churchill is one of the UK's leading dramatist whose many plays include Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, Top Girls, Cloud Nine, Far Away, A Number and Love and Information.

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