The Story
by Shelagh Stephenson
The first collection of plays by one of Britain's most acclaimed contemporary playwrights.
The collection includes:
THE MEMORY OF WATER in which three sisters meet on the evening after their mother's funeral and fight out old troubles with one another.
FIVE KINDS OF SILENCE is a terrifying portrayal of a family for whom rules, duties and punishments are the driving force.
AN EXPERIMENT WITH AN AIR PUMP in a world of scientific chaos, cloning and genetic engineering, the cellar of a house yields up the secrets of the scientific discoveries of 1799.
ANCIENT LIGHTS, Hollywood stars come home to the hills of Northumberland .
Description
by Shelagh Stephenson
The first collection of plays by one of Britain's most acclaimed contemporary playwrights.
The collection includes:
THE MEMORY OF WATER in which three sisters meet on the evening after their mother's funeral and fight out old troubles with one another.
FIVE KINDS OF SILENCE is a terrifying portrayal of a family for whom rules, duties and punishments are the driving force.
AN EXPERIMENT WITH AN AIR PUMP in a world of scientific chaos, cloning and genetic engineering, the cellar of a house yields up the secrets of the scientific discoveries of 1799.
ANCIENT LIGHTS, Hollywood stars come home to the hills of Northumberland .
