The Almighty Sometimes (eBook)

Kendall Feaver (Autor)

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2018 | 1. Auflage
96 Seiten
Faber & Faber (Verlag)
978-0-571-34725-4 (ISBN)

Infos

I'm older now. I'm stronger. How do you know I haven't sorted out some natural equilibrium all on my own? Maybe we should try it, just for a bit. Diagnosed with a severe mental illness as a child, Anna was prescribed a cocktail of pills. Now a young adult, she's wondering how life might feel without them. But as she tries to move beyond the labels that have defined her, her mother feels compelled to intervene - threatening the fragile balance they have both fought so hard to maintain. Winner of a Judges Award at the 2015 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting, Kendall Feaver's The Almighty Sometimespremiered at the Royal Exchange, Manchester, in February 2018.

Kendall Feaver received the Judges' Award at the 2015 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting, Best New Play at the 2018 UK Theatre Awards, and the 2019 NSW and Victorian Premier's Prizes for Drama for her play, The Almighty Sometimes (Royal Exchange, Manchester; Griffin Theatre Company, Sydney). Stage adaptations include: My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin (Belvoir St Theatre, Sydney) and Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild (National Theatre, London). Kendall has written on invited attachments at the National Theatre and Bush Theatre. She was the 2019 Philip Parsons Fellow at Belvoir Street Theatre, and an inaugural member of the Genesis Almeida New Playwrights, Big Plays programme (2019/20).

Rezensionen

This fine, ferocious play is strong meat, sliced cleanly and served raw.

Kendall Feaver's debut play could easily have been just an issue drama, pointing to the rise of mental health problems among young people and highlighting the way we treat them. It is that, but it is so much more, too: a funny, heartbreaking, acutely alive play boasting vividly drawn characters.

Impressive debut play.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.3.2018
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater
• Schlagworte: ADHD • australian playwright • Bipolar • debut play • Mental Health Awareness • mental health awareness, bipolar, adhd, prescribed medication, debut play, australian playwright • prescribed medication
• ISBN-10: 0-571-34725-8 / 0571347258
• ISBN-13: 978-0-571-34725-4 / 9780571347254