Light Falls - (Modern Plays) by Simon Stephens (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>New play by Simon Stephens, premiering at the Royal Exchange in Manchester<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><i>LOOK ME IN THE EYE AND TELL ME YOU'LL NEVER LEAVE ME.</i> <p/>A woman wakes up with a stranger beside her. A student argues with his lover. A single mother fights to feed her baby. A married man flirts with two younger women. And far away, one devastating event is about to change all their lives forever. <p/>Artistic Director Sarah Frankcom says goodbye to the Royal Exchange with an extraordinary new play by Simon Stephens, with original music by Jarvis Cocker. Connecting five relatives in five disparate English towns, from Blackpool to Durham, LIGHT FALLS is a richly layered play about life in the face of death, about how our love survives us after we've gone - and about how family, community and kindness help the North survive.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"Stephens heeds that advice while writing a play that does something relatively rare in modern theatre: it takes an optimistic view of humanity and suggests that the nuclear family is not going to explode any time soon." --<i>Michael Billington, The Guardian</i> <p/>"It seems to me that this piece - which boasts music composed by Jarvis Cocker - is presented with the perfect mixture of audacity, restraint and warmth." --<i>Telegraph</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Simon Stephens</b> began his theatrical career in the literary department of the Royal Court Theatre, where he ran its Young Writers' Programme. His plays for theatre include Bluebird (Royal Court Theatre, London, 1998, directed by Gordon Anderson); <i>Herons </i>(Royal Court Theatre, 2001); <i>Port </i>(Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, 2002); <i>One Minute</i> (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, 2003 and Bush Theatre, London, 2004); <i>Christmas </i>(Bush Theatre, 2004); <i>Country Music</i> (Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, 2004); <i>On the Shore of the Wide World</i> (Royal Exchange Theatre and National Theatre, London, 2005); Motortown (Royal Court Theatre Downstairs, 2006); <i>Pornography </i>(Deutsches Schauspielhaus, Hanover, 2007; Edinburgh Festival/Birmingham Rep, 2008 and Tricycle Theatre, London, 2009);<i> Harper Regan</i>(National Theatre, 2008); <i>Sea Wall </i>(Bush Theatre, 2008/Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, 2009); <i>Heaven </i>(Traverse Theatre, 2009); <i>Punk Rock</i> (Lyric Hammersmith, London, and Royal Exchange Theatre, 2009); <i>The Trial of Ubu </i>(Essen Schauspielhaus/Toneelgroep Amsterdam, 2010); <i>A Thousand Stars Explode in the Sky </i>(co-written with David Eldridge and Robert Holman; Lyric Hammersmith, London, 2010); <i>Marine Parade</i> (co-written with Mark Eitzel; Brighton International Festival, 2010); T5 (Traverse Theatre, 2010); <i>Wastwater </i>(Royal Court Theatre Downstairs, 2011); <i>Morning </i>(Lyric Hammersmith, 2012); an adaptation of<i> A Doll's House (</i>Young Vic, 2012); an adaptation of <i>The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time</i> (National Theatre, 2012); <i>Blindsided </i>(Royal Exchange, 2014); and <i>Birdland </i>(Royal Court, 2014). His radio plays include <i>Five Letters Home to Elizabeth</i> (BBC Radio 4, 2001) and <i>Digging</i> (BBC Radio 4, 2003). His screenwriting includes an adaptation of Motortown for Film4 (2009); the two-part serial <i>Dive </i>(with Dominic Savage) for Granada/BBC (2009); and a short film adaptation of <i>Pornography </i>for Channel 4's 'Coming Up' series (2009). Awards include the Pearson Award for Best New Play, 2001, for <i>Port</i>; Olivier Award for Best New Play for <i>On the Shore of the Wide World</i>, 2005; and for <i>Motortown </i>German critics in Theater Heute's annual poll voted him Best Foreign Playwright, 2007. His adaptation of <i>Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time</i> won the 2015 Tony Award for Best Play.
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