Taken (NHB Modern Plays)

by Winsome Pinnock

Overview

A mother is confronted by the child she had to give up.

This play was originally published in the volume Charged, a collection of plays about the lives of women in the criminal justice system, and was commissioned and premiered by Clean Break, a theatre and education company working with women whose lives have been affected by the criminal justice system.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781780014517
Publisher:	Hern, Nick Books
Publication date:	06/14/2015
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	60
File size:	5 MB
Age Range:	12 Years

About the Author

Winsome Pinnock’s plays include: One Under (2005) and Water (2000) at the Tricycle Theatre; Mules (Clean Break/Royal Court Theatre Upstairs/Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles and The Magic Theatre, San Francisco, 1996); Talking in Tongues (1991) and A Hero’s Welcome (1989; runner-up Susan Smith Blackburn Prize) at the Royal Court Theatre and Leave Taking (Liverpool Playhouse Theatre/Contact Theatre Manchester/Belgrade Theatre Coventry/Lyric Hammersmith/ National Theatre, 1986). Radio plays include: Her Father's Daughter and The Dinner Party (BBC Radio 4); Lazarus (BBC Radio 3). Awards include the George Devine Award, the Pearson Award and the Unity Theatre Trust Award.