Charged (NHB Modern Plays): Six plays about women, crime and justice

by Chloë Moss

Overview

The heartbreaking truth about the lives of women in the criminal justice system is exposed in these six plays by some of the most exciting and distinctive female voices in British theatre.

Commissioned and premiered by Clean Break, a theatre and education company working with women whose lives have been affected by the criminal justice system.

The collection includes:
Fatal Light by Chloë Moss
Taken by Winsome Pinnock
Dream Pill by Rebecca Prichard
Doris Day by E V Crowe
Dancing Bears by Sam Holcroft
That Almost Unnameable Lust by Rebecca Lenkiewicz

'a gripping vitality... It's striking how the overall tone is not stridently feminist, but quiet and matter-of-fact. Charged feels more urgent for it.' - Guardian

'unlocks the drama – and the pity – of tough justice.' - Time Out

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781780013923
Publisher:	Hern, Nick Books
Publication date:	10/06/2014
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	184
File size:	1 MB
Age Range:	12 Years

About the Author

Winsome Pinnock’s plays include: One Under (2005) and Water (2000) at the Tricycle Theatre; Mules (Clean Break/Royal Court Theatre Upstairs/Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles and The Magic Theatre, San Francisco, 1996); Talking in Tongues (1991) and A Hero’s Welcome (1989; runner-up Susan Smith Blackburn Prize) at the Royal Court Theatre and Leave Taking (Liverpool Playhouse Theatre/Contact Theatre Manchester/Belgrade Theatre Coventry/Lyric Hammersmith/ National Theatre, 1986). Radio plays include: Her Father's Daughter and The Dinner Party (BBC Radio 4); Lazarus (BBC Radio 3). Awards include the George Devine Award, the Pearson Award and the Unity Theatre Trust Award.

Rebecca Prichard wrote Dream Pill while undertaking her AHRC Creative Fellowship at Lancaster University. Her other plays include: Futures (Zurich Schauspielhaus/Theatre 503, 2006); Delir’ium (Royal Court/Tricycle Theatre/Chichester Festival Theatre, 2005); Yard Gal (Clean Break/Royal Court Theatre and UK Tour, 1998; winner of the Critics’ Circle Award for Most Promising Playwright); Fair Game (Royal Court at the Duke of York’s, 1997) and Essex Girls (Royal Court Young Writers Festival, 1994).

Sam Holcroft’s other plays include Rules for Living, at the National Theatre, The Wardrobe, for National Theatre Connections, and Edgar & Annabel, part of the Double Feature season in the Paintframe at the National Theatre; Dancing Bears, part of the Charged season for Clean Break at Soho Theatre and Latitude Festival; While You Lie at the Traverse, Edinburgh; Pink, part of the Women, Power and Politics season at the Tricycle; Vanya, adapted from Chekhov, at The Gate; and Cockroach, co-produced by the National Theatre of Scotland and the Traverse (nominated for Best New Play 2008, by the Critics’ Awards for Theatre in Scotland and shortlisted for the John Whiting Award, 2009). In 2013, she wrote The House Taken Over, a libretto for opera, adapted from Cortázar, for the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence and Académie Européenne de Musique. Sam received the Tom Erhardt Award in 2009, was the Pearson Writer-in-Residence at the Traverse Theatre, 2009–10, and the Writer-in-Residence at the National Theatre Studio from 2013–14. In 2014, Sam received a Windham Campbell Prize for Literature in the drama category.