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Author_debbie tucker green
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drama
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family drama
Hampstead Theatre
modern drama
Most Promising Newcomer
Olivier Award
plays
stage play
theatre
Product details
- ISBN 9781854597403
- Weight: 77g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 07 May 2003
- Publisher: Nick Hern Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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A hard-hitting and original family drama, winner of the 2004 Olivier Award for Most Promising Newcomer.
'the bits don't make the bulk and the bulk don't mek the whole and the all a your bits together don't make your versions true.'
A blood-related black family. A Dad, a Mum, a Daughter, two Sisters, a Brother. A family argument. A skeleton in the closet...
debbie tucker green's play born bad dives headlong into the powerful heart of this family, unleashing wit, ferocity and verbal dexterity on the way. It was premiered at Hampstead Theatre, London, in 2003.
debbie tucker green is a playwright, screenwriter and director.
Her plays include: ear for eye (Royal Court Theatre, 2018); 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.
