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polychrome |
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text file |
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"Multiplay Drama." |
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Scenes: 5. Roles: Male (4) , Female (3) , Neutral (0). |
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Theme: Love; Suffering; Relationships; Memory/the past; Friendship. Genre: Naturalistic/realistic drama; English drama; British drama. Period: Contemporary. Place: England; United Kingdom. |
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Laura Lomas's play Blister is a tense relationship drama which examines the limits of forgiveness and the after-effects of trauma. The play was commissioned and first performed by Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, in collaboration with Paines Plough, at the Bute Theatre, Cardiff, on 1 April 2014, and was subsequently performed at the Gate Theatre, London. It is published as part of the Nick Hern Books Multiplay Drama series featuring large-cast plays specifically written to be performed by and appeal to older teenagers and young adults. The play opens with Lisa joining her brother Liam in a park in a Midlands city. Liam is in a bad way: he got a U in a practice paper for his BTEC, has fallen out with some of his friends, and feels powerless at home, where his mum is in an abusive relationship with a new man. He feels abandoned by Lisa, who, Liam has discovered, is on the point of moving out with her boyfriend Ashley. Isolated, drunk, and burning with rage, Liam feels he has nowhere left to turn, except to an act of pointless violence. Then the action skips forward twelve months, and everyone is dealing with the consequences of Liam's moment of madness. The original production was directed by Stef O'Driscoll, and performed by members of the company. |
| Local Note |
Bloomsbury Drama Online Nick Hern Books Modern Plays - Annual Update 2020 |
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Teenagers -- Drama.
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Teenagers. |
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Drama.
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Drama.
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Academic theses.
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Academic theses.
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| ISBN |
9781788501095 (print) |
| Standard No. |
10.5040/9781784605636.00000003 |
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e784605636003 |
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