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The empty quarter
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- Book Synopsis
- A play confronting the challenges we face in a foreign land, asking where, or to whom, we belong. Dubai seems to offer British twenty-somethings Greg and Holly everything they could want: tax-free income, a brand-new apartment and an exotic landscape waiting to be explored. But surviving on the edge of a desert, in a society they don't understand, proves more difficult than they could have imagined. They soon start to question why it is they came, and whether they'll ever get home. Alexandra Wood's play The Empty Quarter was first staged at Hampstead Theatre Downstairs, London, in September 2013.
- About The Author
- Alexandra Wood is a UK playwright whose plays include: The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher, based on the story by Hilary Mantel (Liverpool Everyman, 2026); an adaptation of Kate Summerscale's The Suspicions of Mr Whicher (Watermill Theatre, 2023); The Tyler Sisters (Hampstead Theatre, 2019); The Human Ear (Paines Plough, 2015); Ages (Old Vic New Voices); an English version of Manfred Karge's Man to Man (Wales Millennium Centre); Merit (Theatre Royal Plymouth, 2015); The Initiate (Paines Plough, 2014; winner of Scotsman Fringe First); an adaptation of Jung Chang's Wild Swans (ART/Young Vic); The Empty Quarter (Hampstead Theatre, 2013); The Centre (Islington Community Theatre); Decade (co-writer, Headlong); Unbroken (Gate Theatre, London, 2009); The Lion's Mouth (Royal Court Rough Cuts); The Eleventh Capital (Royal Court Theatre, London, 2007) and the radio play Twelve Years (BBC Radio 4). She is a winner of the George Devine Award (for The Eleventh Capital) and was the Big Room Playwright-in-residence at Paines Plough in 2013. Author photo by YellowBelly Photo
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781848423664
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Nick Hern Books, (30 September 2013)
- Number of Pages
- 111
- Weight
- 135 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 198 x 129 x 14 mm
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