The Bomb: 3 - Brossura

Dyer, Kevin

Brossura

ISBN 10: 095469127X ISBN 13: 9780954691271

Casa editrice: Aurora Metro Pubns, 2006

Riassunto

Could you meet the man who killed your father?
At sixteen she was shell-shocked and caught in the blast. Now the bomber's waiting on the other side of the door.
The Bomb is a play which journeys into the minds of two extraordinary characters - one who destroys lives, the other who forgives the unforgivable.
Inspired by Jo Berry whose father was killed by the 1984 Brighton Bomb, and Patrick Magee who planted the bomb. In 2000, they met for the first time - and became friends.

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Recensione

Dyer shows us a suited Keenan - going about the lethal business of installing a bomb beneath a hotel bath. Interwoven with these scenes are exchanges - 20 years later - between Elizabeth and her impatient teenage daughter: their holiday plans are blown apart when a phone call summons Elizabeth to meet her dad's killer. A third strand shows us the younger Elizabeth and her preoccupied father snatching moments together on the eve of the bombing. By using a fractured time-scheme, Dyer hardwires the tension so that it builds to a double-climax - the eventual encounter between first-hand perpetrator and second-generation victim precedes the long-awaited explosion. Everything takes place on a violently angled, debris-strewn stage: it's as if, after all these years, the dust still hasn't settled. 'But he was my daddy,' Elizabeth says, simply, in the face of the IRA man's convoluted rationale; that drop of frozen innocence could melt the hardest heart. --The Telegraph

This is story telling at its best... --Time Out

...an emotionally explosive drama... --The Guardian

L'autore

Kevin Dyer has over 30 commissioned plays behind him - for radio, for young people's audiences, arts centres, rural tours, as well as a large-scale community play. He is a published poet and has been a magazine and newspaper journalist, a reviewer and a leader of many creative writing sessions.

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• Editore: Aurora Metro Pubns
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 095469127X
• ISBN 13: 9780954691271
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 74