it felt empty when the heart went at first but it is alright now
$30.39
- Paperback
64 pages
- Release Date
8 October 2009
Summary
‘I know exactly how much I am worth. I am worth one thousand euros because that is how much Babac paid for me. To put this in easy language, that is like two-and-a-half iPhones.’
A luminous journey exploring the life of Dijana Polancec: professional romantic, eternal optimist and accidental prostitute.
Lucy Kirkwood’s it felt empty when the heart went at first but it is alright now is a play about modern-day sex trafficking. It was commissioned by Clean Break …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781848420816 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1848420811 |
| Author: | Lucy Kirkwood |
| Publisher: | Nick Hern Books |
| Imprint: | Nick Hern Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 64 |
| Release Date: | 8 October 2009 |
| Weight: | 82g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 6mm |
| Series: | NHB Modern Plays |
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Critics Review
‘unflinching… theatre that provokes in the best way, without lurid melodrama or sentimentality, but with wit and tenderness… demands that we watch and listen’
‘Unflinching… theatre that provokes in the best way, without lurid melodrama or sentimentality, but with wit and tenderness… demands that we watch and listen’
* The Times *‘Superb… deeply painful and profoundly disturbing’
* The Stage *About The Author
Lucy Kirkwood
Lucy Kirkwood is a British playwright and screenwriter whose plays include: The Human Body (Donmar Warehouse, London, 2024); Rapture (promoted as That Is Not Who I Am, Royal Court Theatre, London, 2022); The Welkin (National Theatre, London 2020); Mosquitoes (National Theatre, 2017); The Children (Royal Court Theatre, 2016); Chimerica (Almeida Theatre & West End, 2013; winner of the 2014 Olivier Award for Best New Play, the 2013 Evening Standard Best Play Award, the 2014 Critics’ Circle Best New Play Award, and the Susan Smith Blackburn Award); NSFW (Royal Court, 2012); small hours (co-written with Ed Hime; Hampstead Theatre, 2011); Beauty and the Beast (with Katie Mitchell; National Theatre, 2010); Bloody Wimmin, as part of Women, Power and Politics (Tricycle Theatre, 2010); it felt empty when the heart went at first but it is alright now (Clean Break & Arcola Theatre, 2009; winner of the 2012 John Whiting Award); Hedda (Gate Theatre, London, 2008); and Tinderbox (Bush Theatre, 2008).She won the inaugural Berwin Lee UK Playwrights Award in 2013.
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