Tusk Tusk
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A01=Polly Stenham
Author_Polly Stenham
Category=DD
Childhood
Disappearance
Dysfunction
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Families
Product details
- ISBN 9780571249725
- Weight: 120g
- Dimensions: 127 x 199mm
- Publication Date: 02 Apr 2009
- Publisher: Faber & Faber
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Come on troops. Let's take check: Finn Bar, slightly ruffled but still in fighting form. Maggie, could do with a full night's sleep but otherwise all in order... Stay here. Don't answer the door. I'll go out and get some proper food.
In a new flat, three children play hide and seek. Eliot wears a crown, little Finn, King of the Wild Thing's, draws on the walls. Maggie climbs them.
Hiding from the world, needing to be found, their one shared focus a mobile phone. Will it ring? Who will call? And what are they waiting for?
Tusk Tusk is a tale of family loyalty as an uncertain future circles.
Polly Stenham's second play premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in March 2009.
Polly Stenham's plays include That Face (Royal Court and the Duke of York's), for which she was awarded the 2008 Critics' Circle Award for Most Promising Playwright, the Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright 2007 and TMA Best New Play 2007. Also at the Royal Court: Tusk Tusk and No Quarter. Hotel premiered at the National Theatre, London, in 2014.
