Blue/Orange (Modern Plays) - Softcover

Penhall, Joe

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9780413752703: Blue/Orange (Modern Plays)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0413752704 ISBN 13: 9780413752703

Publisher: Methuen Drama, 2000

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In a London psychiatric hospital, an enigmatic patient claims to be the son of an African dictator - a story that becomes unnervingly plausible. An incendiary tale of race, madness and a Darwinian power struggle at the heart of a dying National Health Service, Blue/Orange premiered at London's Cottesloe Theatre in April 2000 and transferred to the West End in 2001.

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About the Author:

Award-winning writer Joe Penhall was described by The
Financial Times as 'one of the finest playwrights of his generation.' His debut
at the Royal Court, Some Voices, won the John Whiting Award for best new play.
His National Theatre play Blue/Orange won an Olivier Award, an Evening
Standard Award and the Critics Circle Award for Best Play. Joe wrote and
produced the BAFTA winning BBC serial Moses
Jones and his feature film of Some Voices starred Daniel Craig and
premiered in competition at the Cannes Film festival . This was followed
by Enduring Love, also starring Daniel Craig, based on Ian McEwan's
novel; and his adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's novel, The Road, starring
Charlize Theron and Viggo Mortensen, which premiered in competition at the
Venice Film Festival in 2009.

Review:

"Joe Penhall creates as riveting and compelling a new chamber play as we have seen since Michael Frayn's Copenhagen" - Daily Mail

"Britain's best new play since Michael Frayn's Copenhagen...thrillingly original" - Financial Times

"Funny and irreverent...Penhall's writing is vibrant throughout" - Independent on Sunday

"I came out of Joe Penhall's new play in a state of hot, black excitement: emotional, intellectual, moral excitement. How many plays can claim that much?" - Sunday Times

"Exuberant...Penhall has the gift of making serious points in a comic manner and of conveying moral indignation without preaching...Stinging satire" - Guardian

"Provocative, blackly funny...[and taut with thought-provoking ambiguity" - Independent

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