Sabrina Mahfouz Plays: 1: That Boy; Dry Ice; Clean; Chef; Battleface; The Love I Feel is Red; With a Little Bit of Luck; Layla's Room; Rashida; Power of Plumbing; This is How it Was

by Sabrina Mahfouz

Overview

Sabrina Mahfouz has been called 'theatrical dynamite' by The Independent and '[one of] our most interesting playwrights' by Lyn Gardner in The Guardian. As a recent elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, she is a playwright, poet, essayist, children's author and activist whose work explores a variety of mediums in challenging and genre-defying ways.

Her first play collection brings together a unique mix of published and previously unpublished works for the stage, including a Off West End Award-winning play for children; a Fringe First award-winner; a BBC Radio&Music Best Drama award-winner and a Sky Arts Academy award-winning play.

From the explosive poetic monologue play Chef to the rhythmic drive of With a Little Bit of Luck, this collection fizzes with infectious lyricism that captures Mahfouz's work for the stage in a variety of different forms, proving that contemporary theatre remains boundless in terms of its ability to spark debate and move audiences.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781350143579
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	12/19/2019
Series:	Contemporary Dramatists
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	288
File size:	559 KB

About the Author

Sabrina Mahfouz has recently been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and is the recipient of the 2018 King's Alumni Arts&Culture Award. She has won a Sky Arts Academy Award for Poetry, a Westminster Prize for New Playwrights and a Fringe First Award for her play Chef. Her play With a Little Bit of Luck won the 2019 Best Drama Production at the BBC Radio&Music Awards. She also writes for children and her play Zeraffa Giraffa won a 2018 Off West End Award.

Sabrina is the editor of The Things I Would Tell You: British Muslim Women Write, a 2017 Guardian Book of the Year and the forthcoming Smashing It: Working Class Artists on Life, Art and Making It Happen. She's an essay contributor to the multi-award-winning The Good Immigrant and is currently writing a biopic of the rapper and producer Wiley, for Pulse Films.
Sabrina Mahfouz has recently been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and is the recipient of the 2018 King's Alumni Arts&Culture Award. She has won a Sky Arts Academy Award for Poetry, a Westminster Prize for New Playwrights and a Fringe First Award for her play Chef. Her play With a Little Bit of Luck won the 2019 Best Drama Production at the BBC Radio&Music Awards. She also writes for children and her play Zeraffa Giraffa won a 2018 Off West End Award.

Sabrina is the editor of The Things I Would Tell You: British Muslim Women Write, a 2017 Guardian Book of the Year and the forthcoming Smashing It: Working Class Artists on Life, Art and Making It Happen. She's an essay contributor to the multi-award-winning The Good Immigrant and is currently writing a biopic of the rapper and producer Wiley, for Pulse Films.

Table of Contents

Introduction by the Author
That Boy
The Clean Collection (Dry Ice; One Hour Only; Clean) Herald Angel Award winner
Chef (Fringe First Award Winner)
Battleface
The Love I Feel Is Red
With a Little Bit of Luck ( Best Drama Production, BBC Radio&Music Awards 2019)
Ziraffa Giraffa (based on the book by Diane Hofmeyr, winner of the 2018 Off West End Award)
Rashida
The Power of Plumbing

Editorial Reviews

One of the rising stars of new British playwrighting” —The Scotsman

“Theatrical dynamite” —Independent

“In quite a different league…a really substantial piece of writing…the language is rich…she speaks lyrically and powerfully…a real find” —The Times (on Clean Collection)

“Fist-pumping euphoria... diamond-clear language... one of the highlights of Latitude... crackles with a rare and unexpected life...warm, generous and joyous.” —The Stage (on With a Little Bit of Luck)

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