The Evil Doers and the Baby
The Evil Doers and the Baby
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Two-play volume by the writer voted "Most Promising British Playwright of 1990". "The Evil Doers" is a vicious comedy set in Glasgow, while "The Baby" is a love story set in Rome in 78 BC. Hannan's other plays include "The Orphan's Comedy" and "Elizabeth Gordon Quinn".
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The Evil Doers and the Baby by Chris Hannan
Two-play volume by the writer voted "Most Promising British Playwright of 1990". "The Evil Doers" is a vicious comedy set in Glasgow, while "The Baby" is a love story set in Rome in 78 BC. Hannan's other plays include "The Orphan's Comedy" and "Elizabeth Gordon Quinn".
Chris Hannan is playwright and novelist. His plays include Elizabeth Gordon Quinn (Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, 1985; revived by the National Theatre of Scotland in its inaugural season in 2006); The Evil Doers (Bush Theatre, London, 1990; Time Out Award and Charrington London Fringe Best New Play Award); Shining Souls (Traverse, 1996, revived by the Old Vic in 1997; winner of a Scotland on Sunday Critics Award and a Lloyds Bank Playwright of the Year nomination); The God of Soho (Shakespeare's Globe, 2011); The Three Musketeers and the Princess of Spain (Traverse, English Touring Theatre, Coventry Belgrade, 2011) and What Shadows (Birmingham Rep, 2016). As well as original plays, Hannan has adapted Crime and Punishment (Glasgow Citizens' Theatre/Liverpool Playhouse/Lyceum Edinburgh, 2013) and The Iliad (Lyceum Edinburgh, 2016); and also made new versions of Ibsen's The Pretenders (RSC, 1991), Gogol's Gamblers (Tricycle 1992), and Stars in the Morning Sky (Coventry Belgrade, 2012). His 2008 novel Missy was awarded the McKitterick Prize for a debut novel.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781854591005 |
| ISBN 10 | 1854591002 |
| Title | The Evil Doers and the Baby |
| Author | Chris Hannan |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Nick Hern Books |
| Year published | 1991-08-08 |
| Number of pages | 124 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |