For Once by Tim Price (English) Paperback Book

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For Once

by Tim Price

Life, love and loss in a picture postcard town is laid bare in this heart-breaking but darkly comic new play. Through a series of interweaving accounts For Once cuts to the heart of a family, and a community, turned upside down by unimaginable tragedy.

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Publisher Description

In a place where everyone knows your name you can't forget who you are.Life, love and loss in a picture postcard town is laid bare in this heart-breaking but darkly comic new play. Through a series of interweaving accounts For Once cuts to the heart of a family, and a community, turned upside down by unimaginable tragedy.For Once examines the fallout after a car crash on a country lane takes the life of two local teenagers, through three interlaced monologues by their surviving friend Sid and his parents, April and Gordon, exposing the pre-existing faultlines in the family. Sid has been left partially sighted by the crash, and his account of his life before and since the accident gives an insight into why young people living in what seems like 'ideal' communities are driven to seek thrills elsewhere, sometimes with horrifying consequences. However, far from being depressing, Tim Price's skill at capturing the revealing inarticulacy of the teenager, as well as his troubled parents, makes for unexpected humour.For Once is a powerful and incisive look at life and death in a small market town and premiered on 8 July 2011 at the Hampstead Theatre in a production by Pentabus Theatre.

Notes

A play of interwoven monologues, For Once portrays the devastation wrought on a family in the aftermath of a terrible accident.

Author Biography

Tim Price is a writer on the cusp of major recognition, with For Once being the first of three major premieres of his work planned over the next year. His next play, Salt, Root and Roe will be seen at Trafalgar Studios in November as part of the Donmar West End season, and in 2012, his play The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning will open for the National Theatre of Wales in Haverfordwest.He was shortlisted for this year's Verity Bargate Award with his play Will and George.

Review

Wry, compassionate and thought-provoking * Caroline McGinn, Time Out London, 21.7.11 *
A gentle yet forensic examination of family crisis in a rural town. As the pain, anger, love and anxiety of mother, father and son bleed out in interweaving monologues, the cords that connect them are at once strangulating, sustaining and strained to snapping point..this is sharp-eyed writing, full of humanity and compassion. -- Sam Marlowe * The Times *
This elegant, elegiac three-hander winds, with wry humour and occasional mineshafts of buried feeling, through the aftermath of a terrible accident... Price's writing, generously endowed with bitter-sweet one-liners, is quietly compelling. -- Fiona Mountford * Evening Standard *
What is remarkable about the drama is that it is not grim or sensationalist... Price's style is gentle... But it is also laugh-out loud funny in places. -- Sarah Hemming * Financial Times *
If you don't know the name Tim Price, you will soon... You can see what the fuss is about in this small quiet cracker of a family drama...Fragile and just over an hour long, this is quite an old-fashioned kitchen sink and ironing drama... Price's unflashy play is good on the smug busybody undertones of small-town lives, and makes neat use of humour... It has the lurking power of an unexploded bomb. -- Lyn Gardner * Guardian *

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A play of interwoven monologues, For Once portrays the devastation wrought on a family in the aftermath of a terrible accident.

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Wry, compassionate and thought-provoking.

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A play of interwoven monologues, For Once portrays the devastation wrought on a family in the aftermath of a terrible accident.

Feature

Published to coincide with the world premiere at Hampstead Theatre, London, 20 July 2011 in a production by Pentabus Theatre, prior to a national tour Spring 2012

Details ISBN1408158728 Author Tim Price Pages 64 Series Modern Plays Year 2011 ISBN-10 1408158728 ISBN-13 9781408158722 Format Paperback Publication Date 2011-07-08 Imprint Methuen Drama Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 822.92 Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Media Book Language English Short Title FOR ONCE Residence San Antonio Affiliation Dorset County Hospital, Dorchester, UKDorset County Hospital, Dorch Illustrations black & white illustrations UK Release Date 2011-07-08 NZ Release Date 2011-07-08 Audience General AU Release Date 2011-08-31

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  • Condition: Brand New
  • ISBN-13: 9781408158722
  • Type: NA
  • Publication Name: NA
  • Publication Year: 2011
  • Format: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Book Title: For Once
  • Item Height: 198mm
  • Author: Tim Price
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Topic: Plays
  • Item Width: 129mm
  • Item Weight: 82g
  • Number of Pages: 64 Pages

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