The Human Body

von Lucy Kirkwood

128 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

1948, Shropshire: the winter is freezing, austerity is biting and Iris Elcock, GP, socialist and Labour Party councillor, is working tirelessly to implement Nye Bevan''s National Health Service Act and its revolutionary promise of free healthcare for all.At home she is a mother, and wife to a fellow GP, an ex-Navy man scarred by the war. But a chance meeting with George Blythe, a local boy who has made it to Hollywood, turns her quiet, certain world upside down.A story of political and private passions, Lucy Kirkwood''s play The Human Body was first performed at the Donmar Warehouse, London, in 2024, directed by Michael Longhurst and Ann Yee, and starring Keeley Hawes and Jack Davenport.

• Reihe: NHB Modern Plays
• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Drama, Theaterstücke, Drehbücher
• ISBN: 9781839043260
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 29.02.2024
• Größe: 197 x 127 mm
• Verlag: Nick Hern Books