Chamber Piece by Caroline Bird

Chamber Piece by Caroline Bird

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Summary

A pitch black comedy from award-winning poet and playwright Caroline Bird. The Thick of It meets The Shawshank Redemption.

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Chamber Piece by Caroline Bird

In this pitch-black comedy, fatal chemicals combine with ruthless ambition, biscuits, bureaucracy and moral ambiguity. Set in the near future, Britain has reinstated the death penalty. Relatives are weeping in the witness gallery, the journalist clicks her pen and the prison governor gives the thumbs up. Rapist murderer Richard Sanger is strapped to the gurney. Chamber Piece depicts a modern, British execution. How would it look? How would we feel? And what could possibly go wrong?

Caroline Bird has been shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize twice & has also won an Eric Gregory Award (2002), the Foyle Young Poet of the Year award two years running (1999, 2000), was a winner of the Poetry London Competition in 2007, and the Peterloo Poetry Competition in 2004, 2003 and 2002. Caroline was on the shortlist for Shell Woman Of The Future Awards 2011. Caroline’s poems have been published in several anthologies, including Oxford Poetry 2008, and are published regularly in PN Review, Poetry Review and The North. A member of the Royal Court Young Writers Programme, Caroline is also a playwright. In 2011, Caroline’s contribution was included in Bush Theatre's project Sixty-Six Books.

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ISBN 13 9781783190706
ISBN 10 1783190701
Title Chamber Piece
Author Caroline Bird
Series Oberon Modern Plays
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published 2013-10-22
Number of pages 102
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.