'Talk About The Passion' & 'Rattl

by Graham Farrow

Overview

Two hard-hitting plays linked by the theme of retribution, exploring the media's fascination with serial killers, and the fall-out from infidelity in marriage



Talk about the Passion: A young child is horrifically murdered; the autobiography of the serial killer is a hit publication. Jason Carroway is forced to endure the guilt at failing to protect his son and the subsequent media attention that accompanies the controversial release of the killer's autobiography. The play is a moving and powerful exploration of loss, society's collusion in the glamorisation of evil, and the desire for justice.

Rattlesnakes examines the seedy world of the gigolo providing sex to bored and lonely wives. A vigilante group of betrayed husbands seek retribution in this hard-hitting study of betrayal and personal failure.Talk about the Passion has been produced in the US, Australia and New Zealand and has been adapted by the author for the screen.

Published to tie in with productions at the New End Theatre, Hampstead and Arc, Stockton in September 2004.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780413774798
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	09/02/2004
Series:	Modern Plays
Pages:	80
Product dimensions:	5.06(w) x 7.81(h) x 0.17(d)

About the Author

Graham Farrow received a Commonwealth Writer's Prize nomination for his first novel Speak No Evil, p ublished in 1989. A year later, his first play Hair of the Dog, a piece set in the aftermath of a nu clear holocaust was premiered by Impact Theatre, Middlesbrough. Eight years and further productions later it was revived at the Birds Nest Theatre, London, to great acclaim. Further plays include Down amongst the Dead Men (London, 1993), The Boys are Back in Town (Salisbury, 1994), Rattlesnakes (New York, 2001), which is currently in development as an ITV two part television serial, and the award-winning and critically acclaimed Talk About The Passion. His new play, Lake of Fire, is scheduled to premiere in Michigan in 2005, and his short film script, Kissing a Fool, will be filmed in 2005 in New York.