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Rockets and Blue Lights - by Winsome Pinnock (Paperback)

Rockets and Blue Lights - by  Winsome Pinnock (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Amid the gloom of Victorian England, a black sailor, Thomas, prepares to take one last voyage, while an ageing painter, J.M.W. Turner, seeks artistic inspiration in a half-remembered story. In twenty-first-century London, an actress finds herself handcuffed by history - two centuries after abolitionists won her ancestors their freedom.</p> <p>Winsome Pinnock's astonishing play retells British history through the prism of the slave trade. Fusing fact with fiction, past with present, the powerfully personal with the fiercely political, <em>Rockets and Blue Lights</em> asks who owns our past - and who has the right to tell its stories?</p> <p>Winner of the 2018 Alfred Fagon Award, the play opened at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, in March 2020, directed by Miranda Cromwell.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"The godmother of Black British playwrights." --<em>Guardian</em></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Winsome Pinnock is an award-winning British playwright of Jamaican heritage. Her plays include: <em>Rockets and Blue Lights</em> (Royal Exchange, Manchester, 2020); <em>One Under</em> (2005) and <em>Water</em> (2000) at the Tricycle Theatre; <em>Mules</em> (Clean Break/Royal Court Theatre Upstairs/Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles and The Magic Theatre, San Francisco, 1996); <em>Talking in Tongues</em> (1991) and <em>A Hero's Welcome</em> (1989; runner-up Susan Smith Blackburn Prize) at the Royal Court Theatre; and <em>Leave Taking</em> (Liverpool Playhouse Theatre/Contact Theatre Manchester/Belgrade Theatre Coventry/Lyric Hammersmith/ National Theatre, 1986).</p> <p>Awards include the George Devine Award, the Pearson Award and the Unity Theatre Trust Award.</p>

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