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A tragic, violent look at parenthood and trauma from award-winning writer Dennis Kelly.

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Girls and Boys by Dennis Kelly

An unexpected meeting at an airport leads to an intense, passionate, head-over-heels relationship. Before long they begin to settle down, buy a house, juggle careers, have kids – theirs is an ordinary family. _x000D_ But then their world starts to unravel and things take a disturbing turn. _x000D_ A tragic, violent look at parenthood and trauma.
We have a pool of amazingly talented playwrights in Britain, and we also have a quite separate talent pool producing comedyThere is very little dialogue between these two worlds, but Dennis is able to move very easily between them, and that is quite unique. * Mark Ravenhill *

Dennis Kelly is an internationally acclaimed playwright. Stage plays include Debris; Osama the Hero (winner of the Meyer Whitworth Award 2006); After the End (international tour, 2005); Love and Money; Taking Care of Baby (John Whiting Award 2007); DNA (NT Connections, National Theatre, 2007-8); Orphans (winner of a Fringe First and Herald Angel Award 2009) and The Gods Weep (Royal Shakespear Company ).Work for radio includes The Colony (BBC Radio 3, 2004; Prix Europa Award - Best European Radio Drama and Radio & Music Award - Scripting for Broadcast 2004) and 12 Shares (BBC Radio 4, 2005). Dennis co-wrote the award winning comedy series Pulling (Silver River and BBC 3, 2006 - 09) and wrote the stage adaptation for Roald Dahl's Matilda, which won the Olivier award for Best New Musical in 2012.'We have a pool of amazingly talented playwrights in Britain, and we also have a quite separate talent pool producing comedy. There is very little dialogue between these two worlds, but Dennis is able to move very easily between them, and that is quite unique.' Mark Ravenhill

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ISBN 13 9781786823144
ISBN 10 1786823144
Title Girls and Boys
Author Dennis Kelly
Series Oberon Modern Plays
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published 2018-02-08
Number of pages 80
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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