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Product Identifiers

PublisherBloomsbury Publishing

ISBN-101350068772

ISBN-139781350068773

eBay Product ID (ePID)240540579

Product Key Features

Number of Pages128 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameGundog

Publication Year2018

SubjectTheater / Playwriting, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaDrama, Performing Arts

AuthorSimon Longman

SeriesModern Plays Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.4 in

Item Weight4.9 Oz

Item Length7.7 in

Item Width4.8 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2017-492488

ReviewsThe flinty humour that glints through Longman's script is evident from the opening scene . . . With a fine, rhythmic insistence, [the play] eloquently raises many existential questions . . . [T]he author has firm control of the poetry and humour. If one definition of talent is the ability to dictate the terms on which an audience receives your work, Longman must be accounted a playwright of distinct promise., A moving new play about the importance of family . . . a beautifully low-key family drama that purrs with feeling. . . . Simon Longman's sparkling new play . . . Longman's dialogue flows like water: it's natural and fresh and ripples with energy. . . . packed with subtle moments that brim with bruised meaning. . . . the despair and joy, loneliness and connection, which family can provide is bundled up in the very fabric of this show., Longman, a former writer in residence at rural touring company Pentabus, has an evident affinity for the agrarian - the seasons and cycles of life, the intermingling of blood and soil . . . Longman's writing has a woozy, dreamlike quality, [A]n unlikely humour that makes me think of Chekhov, muddied over with the realities of 21st century rural poverty . . . Longman's Royal Court debut is a powerful antidote to chirpy, 'The Archers'-style depictions of 21st century agriculture as a problem that can be solved with organic sausage roll enterprises or positive thinking. Becky and Anna know they're out of step with the times and [Longman's] play captures their slow disintegration as the world keeps turning., Longman plays with the past and present and the unchanging cycles that tie the family to the land. This is a compelling, unforgiving glimpse into rural life, and one in which there is not a single fluffy, gambolling lamb in sight., The scenario is surreal, the writing pithy, often poetic, with echoes of Beckett and Caryl Churchill

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal822/.92

Synopsis"Land beneath our feet. Got all our blood inside it hasn't it? All that time. Belongs to us." On a farm in the middle of nowhere, sisters Becky and Anna try to hold their family together after the death of their mother. Time is always moving somewhere - but here it's very quiet. When they discover a stranger wandering aimlessly across the land, the three establish an unlikely partnership in their determination to survive. Simon Longman's Royal Court debut premiered at the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs in February 2018., Land beneath our feet. Got all our blood inside it hasn't it? All that time. Belongs to us.+? On a farm in the middle of nowhere, sisters Becky and Anna try to hold their family together after the death of their mother. Time is always moving somewhere - but here it's very quiet.When they discover a stranger wandering aimlessly across the land, the three establish an unlikely partnership in their determination to survive.Simon Longman's Royal Court debut premiered at the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs in February 2018.|9781350068773|

LC Classification NumberPR6112.O53