Bones by Peter Straughan
It's the 1960s and we're in the back of a porn cinema in Gateshead. Abel Stein takes a dislike to a cockney punter, knocks him out and stuffs him in a cupboard. Then they find out that the infamous Kray twins are in town. What do you do when you've inadvertently kidnapped England's scariest man?
Peter Straughan was writer-in-residence at Live Theatre in Newcastle in 1999/2000 where he wrote Bones. His play COld, a black comedy about a string quartet of psychopathic young men toured during 2001 to great acclaim. His feature fims Five Psychopaths and The Edward Stark Trilogy are under commission from Contagious Films. His half-hour television film Waiters was broadcast in 2001 starring Lee Hall and Robson Green. He won the Alfred Bradley radio award for the adaptation of his own stage play The Ghost of Frederico Garcia Lorca Which Can Also Be Used As A Table. The radio version was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in 2001. Other plays include Fetish (Live Theatre, Newcastle, 2000), Rat (Pink Ponyt THeatre, New York, 1996), and A Rhyme for Orange (winner of the 1997 North East People's Play Award. He also adapted Toby Young's memoir How to Lose Friends & Alienate People for the screen and is the writer of the 2009 film, The Men Who Stare at Goats, and co-writer of the 2011 film Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Adapted Screenplay, a screenplay he wrote in collaboration with his late wife Bridget O'Connor. They were awarded a BAFTA for Best Adapted Screenplay.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780413772046 |
| ISBN 10 | 0413772047 |
| Title | Bones |
| Author | Peter Straughan |
| Series | Modern Plays |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2002-02-21 |
| Number of pages | 96 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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