Scenes From the Big Picture by Owen Mccafferty

Scenes From the Big Picture by Owen Mccafferty

An epic, masterful twenty-plus-character play about Belfast and its multitude of urban denizens. The play takes place over the course of a hot summer's day in an imagined area of present-day Belfast. We see a day in the life of over twenty inhabitants of the district as their stories interweave and collide. In a tour de force of dramatic writing, a whole world is evoked in a couple of hours. Owen McCafferty's Scenes from the Big Picture was first performed in the Cottesloe auditorium of the National Theatre, London, in April 2003, directed by Peter Gill. It won both the 2004 Meyer-Whitworth Award and the 2004 John Whiting Award.

'Scenes From The Big Picture is a more or less perfect play'

* Financial Times *

'Magnificently confirms McCafferty's promiseThis stirringly ambitious piece is an epic that attempts to put the whole of life on stage - birth, death, love, sex, work, families, the whole damn thing. McCafferty is a writer of depth and subtlety, as well as palpable humanity, and constantly confounds the audience's expectations. His characterisation is detailed, vivid and unpredictable, his dialogue pungent, and the piece constantly combines raw drama with quirky humour'

* Daily Telegraph *

'Bathes us in loneliness and violence, foreboding and post-funeral drunkenness, aggression and marital disarray, not to mention teenage sex play for light comic relief... he infuses painful encounters with an authentic sense of pain and regret'

* Evening Standard *

Owen McCafferty is a Belfast-based playwright. His plays include: Quietly (Abbey Theatre, Dublin and Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh Festival, 2013); an adaptation of JP Miller’s Days of Wine and Roses (Donmar Warehouse, London, 2005); Scenes from the Big Picture (National Theatre, London, 2003); Shoot the Crow (Druid, Galway, 1997; Royal Exchange, Manchester, 2003); Mojo Mickybo (Kabosh, Belfast, 1998); No Place Like Home (Tinderbox, Belfast, 2001) and Closing Time (National Theatre, 2002). Scenes from the Big Picture won the John Whiting Award, the Meyer Whitworth Award and the Evening Standard Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright in 2003, making McCafferty the first writer to win all three awards in a single year.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9781854597298
ISBN 10	1854597299
Title	Scenes From the Big Picture
Author	Owen Mccafferty
Series	Nhb Modern Plays
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Nick Hern Books
Year published	2003-04-17
Number of pages	128
Prizes	Winner of Winner of the John Whiting Award 2004, Winner of Winner of the Meyer-Whitworth Award 2004
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