Flood - (Modern Plays) by James Phillips (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><i>Flood </i>is the story of what happens when the world is destroyed, and how those who survive try to make it new again.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><i>She came to us one dawn. The girl. Far out</i><br/><i>One dawn alone beneath the wine dark sea.</i><br/> One day it starts to rain and no-one knows why. And it doesn't stop. Far out on the North Sea a fisherman raises a girl in his net, miraculously alive from the deep sea. Is she one of the migrants now washing up on English shores? Or someone sent for some higher purpose?<br/>Commissioned by Hull UK City of Culture 2017 this epic and extraordinary collaboration between multi-award-winning artists James Phillips and Slung Low is the culmination of a year-long project. Four parts told across three different mediums, this complete text includes four stunningly written dramas that ask fundamental questions about our future, our communities and our collective responsibilities.<br/> "A State of the Nation Parable+? BBC Arts<br/> "Visually stunning, and deeply moving+? The Stage<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>James Phillips's script is a smart piece of work, superimposing elements of mythology on to a near-future dystopian tale of "a world where people have decided that the best way to go forwards is to go backwards". . . . a provocative vision of how riskily we might reinvoke "British values"<br/>Financial Times on 'Camelot'.<br><br>a brilliantly assured drama of ideas and passions<br/>The Telegraph (on The Rubenstein Kiss)<br><br>A State of the Nation Parable<br/>BBC Arts<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>James Phillips is a writer and director. <p/>Plays include: <i>McQueen</i> (West End), <i>The White Whale</i> (Slung Low/Leeds) <i>The Rubenstein Kiss</i> (Hampstead); <i>City Stories</i> (St James); <i>Hidden in the Sand</i> (Trafalgar Studios); <i>The Wind in the Willows</i> (Latitude/ Theatre503);<i> Time and the City</i> (Slung Low/Hull);<i> Bobby and the Chimps</i> (Florida); <i>The Little Fir Tree</i> (Sheffield Theatres). <p/><i>The Rubenstein Kiss</i> won the John Whiting Award and the TMA Award for Best Play.</p>
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