The Container
Published on 1. August 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
64 pages
978-1-84842-073-1 (ISBN)
Description
A harrowing, intense drama about people-trafficking, set inside a container lorry.
A freight container, somewhere in Europe. Inside are five people with one common aim: to reach England and start a new life. Can they trust the agent to get them there? Can they rely on each other? And how far will each of them go to get what they want?
Clare Bayley's play The Container was first performed (inside an actual container lorry) at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2007. It won a Fringe First Award for outstanding new writing on the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and an Amnesty Freedom of Expression Award.
A freight container, somewhere in Europe. Inside are five people with one common aim: to reach England and start a new life. Can they trust the agent to get them there? Can they rely on each other? And how far will each of them go to get what they want?
Clare Bayley's play The Container was first performed (inside an actual container lorry) at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2007. It won a Fringe First Award for outstanding new writing on the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and an Amnesty Freedom of Expression Award.
Reviews / Votes
'Riveting, eloquent drama' * Observer * 'Devastating... dramatises the terrifying experience [of illegal migration] as one of the key journeys of our time... electrifying drama' * Scotsman *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 197 mm
Width: 130 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight
76 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84842-073-1 (9781848420731)
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Person
Clare Bayley is an award-winning writer working across theatre, radio, film and fiction. Her plays include: After the Peace (longlisted for the Bruntwood Prize 2019, RADA Festival); On the March (Oxford Playhouse); Pixel Dust (Assembly Roxy Upstairs, Edinburgh); The Enchantment (National Theatre, London); and The Container (Fringe First Award and Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award, Edinburgh)
Clare runs the Oxford Playhouse writers' scheme, Playhouse Playmakers, and she also teaches at Central School of Speech and Drama and New York University/Tisch School of Performing Arts.
Clare runs the Oxford Playhouse writers' scheme, Playhouse Playmakers, and she also teaches at Central School of Speech and Drama and New York University/Tisch School of Performing Arts.