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    hang (NHB Modern Plays)
    hang (NHB Modern Plays)
    hang (NHB Modern Plays)
    Ebook85 pages49 minutes

    hang (NHB Modern Plays)

    By debbie tucker green

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    His life. In her hands.
    A shattering play about one woman's unspeakable decision.
    hang premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 2015, in a production directed by the author, and featuring Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Claire Rushbrook and Shane Zaza.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNick Hern Books
    Release dateJun 11, 2015
    ISBN9781780016320
    hang (NHB Modern Plays)
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    debbie tucker green

    debbie tucker green is a playwright, screenwriter and director. Her plays include: a profoundly affectionate, passionate devotion to someone (-noun) (Royal Court Theatre, 2017); hang (Royal Court, 2015); nut (National Theatre, 2013); truth and reconciliation (Royal Court, 2011); random (Royal Court, 2008); generations (Young Vic, 2007); stoning mary (Royal Court, 2005); trade (RSC, 2005); born bad (Hampstead Theatre, 2003; Olivier Award for Most Promising Newcomer); and dirty butterfly (Soho Theatre, 2003). She wrote and directed the feature film, Second Coming (BFI/Film 4, 2014; International Film Festival Rotterdam Big Screen Award) and adapted her play random into a TV film for Channel 4, which won the 2012 BAFTA for Best Single Drama and the Black International Film/MVSA Award for Best UK Film. Her work for radio includes: lament (Radio Academy Arias Gold Award), gone, random, handprint and freefall. She was awarded the 2015 Windham Campbell Prize for Drama.

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      hang (NHB Modern Plays) - debbie tucker green

      debbie tucker green

      hang

      NICK HERN BOOKS

      London

      www.nickhernbooks.co.uk

      Contents

      Title Page

      Original Production

      Characters

      Hang

      About the Author

      Copyright and Performing Rights Information

      hang was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, London, on 11 June 2015, with the following cast:

      Characters

      ONE, female

      TWO, male or female

      THREE, female

      Character One and Two are of any race. Character Three is Black, she has a slight, nervous tremble in her hand(s) only.

      Time: Nearly now.

      Words in brackets are not to be spoken.

      Names without dialogue indicate an active silence between those characters.

      A forward slash (/) marks an overlapping point in dialogue.

      This ebook was created before the end of rehearsals and so may differ slightly from the play as performed.

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