Drama Anthologies
Introduced by Gregory Hersov
‘A singular voice for his generation: furious, nihilistic, poetic...’
THIS OTHER EDEN
The Guardian Critics' Choice
A story of passion. A wife and a mother. Her son and daughter. Her husband. The London Irish. Limboland. The hunger for a sense of a real culture. The desire for freedom... A tough play about a woman’s soul, told with beauty, humour and hope.
‘... the play burns with passion and indignation.
’
TREATMENT
Edinburgh Fringe First
Liam is part of a violent street gang but wants to escape. Trapped between two worlds, he has to choose between the
dark allure of violence and the healing power of love.
FALL FROM LIGHT
A young composer writes a new opera. The Director rejects it. but his lover, a young Diva, takes him to the council estate, where she and the composer grew up. There they meet Girly and his gang...
A tale of art, savagery and redemption.
£10.95
ISBN 0-9536757-2-6
200 pages pbk
JONATHAN MOORE
THREE PLAYS
Time Out.
The Daily Telegraph.
An award winning playwright, Jonathan Moore has written nine stage plays since his play "
Treatment
Subsequent performances have taken place at the Gate theatre, the Donmar, London, and a BBC Film version starring Moore and Gabriel Byrne. This powerful and angrily poetic play was acclaimed as "one of the most disturbing and exhilarating plays in London" (The Independent) and the arrival of a major new talent.
He has written as well for TV, film and the BBC, and several texts for contemporary opera for major British and International Opera Houses.
Moore's plays have been performed at the Donmar Gate Theatre, the Almeida (opera text), Royal Exchange, and the Edinburgh Festival.
