Eight
$28.62
- Paperback
64 pages
- Release Date
2 July 2009
Summary
Eight compelling monologues offering a state-of-the-nation group portrait for the stage.
From Millie, the jolly-hockey-sticks prostitute who mourns the loss of the good old British class system, to Miles, a 7⁄7 survivor, and Danny, an ex-squaddie who makes friends in morgues, Eight looks at what has happened to a generation that has grown up in a world where everything has become acceptable.
Ella Hickson’s play Eight was first staged at Bedlam Theatre, Edinbur…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781848420595 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1848420595 |
| Author: | Ella Hickson |
| Publisher: | Nick Hern Books |
| Imprint: | Nick Hern Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 64 |
| Release Date: | 2 July 2009 |
| Weight: | 100g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 5mm |
| Series: | NHB Modern Plays |
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Critics Review
‘One of the most self-assured, startlingly well-written and moving pieces of theatre around’
‘Hickson’s writing remains astonishing, with a huge, angry energy and poetry’
* The Scotsman *‘Ella Hickson has already found her voice and it’s a powerful one - a potent show indeed’
* New York Times *‘One of the most self-assured, startlingly well-written and moving pieces of theatre around’
* Herald *About The Author
Ella Hickson
Ella Hickson is an award-winning writer whose work has been performed throughout the UK and abroad.Her work includes: an adaptation of Sophocles’ Oedipus (Old Vic, London, 2025); Swive [Elizabeth] (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at Shakespeare’s Globe, 2019); ANNA (National Theatre, 2019); The Writer (Almeida Theatre, 2018); Oil (Almeida Theatre, London, 2016); Wendy & Peter Pan (Royal Shakespeare Company, 2013 and 2015; Tokyo, 2021); Riot Girls (Radio 4); Boys (Nuffield Theatre, Southampton / Headlong Theatre / HighTide Festival Theatre, 2012); The Authorised Kate Bane (Grid Iron/Traverse Theatre, 2012); Rightfully Mine (Radio 4); Precious Little Talent (Trafalgar Studios/Tantrums Productions, 2011), Hot Mess (Arcola Tent/ Tantrums Productions, 2010) and Eight (Trafalgar Studios/Bedlam Theatre, Edinburgh, 2008⁄9).Author photo by Peter Hickson
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