It Never Happened by Torben Betts
It Never Happened (or State Terror in Eight Easy Stages) eavesdrops on eight different periods from the past: two soldiers reflect on the prospect of imminent death caused by their government's greed; a political fixer makes an awkward sex scandal go away; a young journalist discovers that integrity doesn't pay the mortgage; and a domestic assault turns into a witchcraft trial.
Torben Betts' new play is a furious but darkly funny indictment of state-sponsored murder and how governments efface their misdeeds from history with the help of a complacent press and public.
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DNA
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People, Places & Things
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Every Brilliant Thing
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Breathing Corpses
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Anatomy of a Suicide
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Tipping the Velvet
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Colder than Here
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Girls and Boys
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The Acid Test
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Kiss Me Like You Mean It
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Orphans
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Love and Money
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Red
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The Author
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Mr Burns
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Alice
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Dangerous Corner
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A Tempest
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After the End
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Norma Jeane Baker of Troy
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My Mum's a Twat
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Photograph 51
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The Heretic
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The Wasp
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Glass Eels
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Violence and Son
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Oppenheimer
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Grounded
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Taking Care of Baby
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Entertaining Angels
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Ladies in Lavender
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Absolute Hell
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The Watsons
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When We Are Married
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Love Steals Us From Loneliness
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The Great Game: Afghanistan
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Little Light
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The Riots
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Rosmersholm
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The Mistress Contract
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Mindgame
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Check Up: Our NHS at 70
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The Firework Maker's Daughter
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(L'Etranger) The Outsider
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Other Hands
an uncommonly talented playwright * Time Out *
Betts has a profound and highly original theatrical voice * Daily Telegraph *
Torben Betts read English Literature & English Language at the University of Liverpool before training and working as an actor. Works include:
The Unconquered, Best New Play 2007 Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland (Tron/Traverse/Arcola/Brits-off-Broadway); A Listening Heaven, nominated for Best New Play at the 2001 TMA Awards (Edinburgh Royal Lyceum); Lie of the Land, nominated for Edinburgh Fringe First Award, 2008 (Edinburgh Pleasance/Arcola); Clockwatching (Orange Tree Theatre); The Company Man (Orange Tree Theatre); The Biggleswades (Southwark Playhouse); Five Visions of the Faithful (Edinburgh Festival); The Lunatic Queen (Riverside Studios); The Error of Their Ways (HERE Arts Center, New York); The Swing of Things (Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough).
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781786827777 |
| ISBN 10 | 1786827778 |
| Title | It Never Happened |
| Author | Torben Betts |
| Series | Oberon Modern Plays |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2019-05-14 |
| Number of pages | 138 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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