Red Speedo
$36.74
- Paperback
112 pages
- Release Date
25 July 2024
Summary
Ray lives to swim. He is within touching distance of international glory and a life-changing sponsorship deal. But everything changes when performance-enhancing drugs are discovered in his swimming club’s refrigerator.
As tensions run high, Ray’s brother wants them destroyed, his coach wants to call the authorities, his ex-girlfriend doesn’t want to know, and Ray wants the drugs back.
A thriller played at the breakneck pace of an Olympic sprint, Lucas Hnath’s play Red Spee…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781839043369 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1839043369 |
| Author: | Lucas Hnath |
| Publisher: | Nick Hern Books |
| Imprint: | Nick Hern Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 112 |
| Release Date: | 25 July 2024 |
| Weight: | 131g |
| Dimensions: | 8mm x 129mm x 198mm |
| Series: | NHB Modern Plays |
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Critics Review
‘Superb… a five-star smash… has the speed and menace of a shark… ingenious… poisonous perfection’ * The Times *
‘A remarkable feat… a taut, incisive drama… Hnath has a wonderfully inventive theatrical mind’
* The New York Times *‘Formal rigour, propulsive momentum, the sense that there’s a lot happening beneath the surface’
* Guardian *‘Makes an impressive splash… entertainingly grapples with slippery questions… oozes a quality of Mamet-like assurance in its cut-and-thrust dialogue’
* Telegraph *‘A timely play about the cost of winning… Hnath carefully rations out the plot twists, betrayals and revelations, right up to the final pivot in the closing scene… packs an intellectual punch’
* Arts Desk *‘Fast and furious… all wrapped up with a proper slapstick battle… It’s great fun to watch’
* Reviews Hub *‘Wonderful… the characters are so complex and the twists and turns so compelling… a thrilling exploration of the pressures of success and how it manifests’
* West End Best Friend *Lucas Hnath
Lucas Hnath is an award-winning playwright whose plays include A Doll’s House, Part 2 (South Coast Repertory & Broadway, 2017); The Christians (Humana Festival, 2014); A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney (Soho Rep); Red Speedo (Studio Theatre, 2013); nightnight (Humana Festival, 2013); Isaac’s Eye (Ensemble Studio Theatre, 2013); and Death Tax (Humana Festival 2012; Royal Court Theatre, 2013). He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a 2015 Whiting Award, a Whitfield Cook Award, two Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award Citations and a Windham Campbell Prize for drama.
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