Every One
Published on 18. March 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
80 pages
978-1-84842-091-5 (ISBN)
Description
A surprisingly positive look at how ordinary people deal with tragedy.
An average family with everyday concerns - raising children, growing up, growing old. Everything changes when Death comes calling to claim Mary, the wife and mother. But gradually the shock and the outrage turn into an uplifting form of acceptance.
Using the medieval play Everyman as its template, Every One asks questions of our own mortality and discovers how often hope and acceptance can be found in our darkest moments.
An average family with everyday concerns - raising children, growing up, growing old. Everything changes when Death comes calling to claim Mary, the wife and mother. But gradually the shock and the outrage turn into an uplifting form of acceptance.
Using the medieval play Everyman as its template, Every One asks questions of our own mortality and discovers how often hope and acceptance can be found in our darkest moments.
Reviews / Votes
'astonishing... an open wound of a play... a work of cathartic brilliance' * Guardian *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 202 mm
Width: 132 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight
96 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84842-091-5 (9781848420915)
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Person
Jo Clifford (formerly known as John Clifford) is an award-winning playwright, translator, poet and performer, who has also worked as a journalist and academic. She was instrumental in establishing the reputation of the Traverse Theatre Company in the 1980s.
She is the author of about eighty plays, many of which have been performed all over the world. They include: Losing Venice, Every One, Faust and The Tree of Knowledge. Her adaptation of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations makes her the first openly transgendered woman playwright to have had a play on in London's West End.
She is the author of about eighty plays, many of which have been performed all over the world. They include: Losing Venice, Every One, Faust and The Tree of Knowledge. Her adaptation of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations makes her the first openly transgendered woman playwright to have had a play on in London's West End.