Maxwell: Plays for Young People by Douglas Maxwell

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"Witty, provocative and heartbreaking, the pieces in this first collection by Douglas Maxwell explore childhood trashed and innocence lost, reinvent and subvert the very idea of a play for young people. Contains the plays Decky Does A Bronco, Helmet, Mancub, The Mother Ship and Too Fast.

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Maxwell: Plays for Young People by Douglas Maxwell

"Witty, provocative and heartbreaking, the pieces in this first collection by Douglas Maxwell explore childhood trashed and innocence lost, reinvent and subvert the very idea of a play for young people. Contains the plays Decky Does A Bronco, Helmet, Mancub, The Mother Ship and Too Fast.
This extraordinary chronicler of youth* Scottish Daily Mail *
Douglas Maxwell was born in 1974 in Girvan, on the Ayrshire coast of Scotland. He is an award-winning playwright, whose work has been performed throughout Scotland, the UK and abroad. His play Variety, a comic drama about the impact of cinema on Scotland's variety entertainers, was staged at The Edinburgh International Festival in 2002 and was subsequently broadcast on BBC4. Maxwell was also the subject of a BBC2 Scotland Artworks documentary in 2002.
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ISBN 13 9781849431507
ISBN 10 1849431507
Title Maxwell: Plays for Young People
Author Douglas Maxwell
Series Oberon Modern Playwrights
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published 2012-06-18
Number of pages 296
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