Mirror Teeth
Published on 2. July 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
94 pages
978-1-84943-192-7 (ISBN)
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"You might at least say thank you, Jenny. I've been out digging a hole for your boyfriend all night. Not to mention severing his legs. Have you ever severed a leg? It's not as easy as it looks. Not with a blunt spade."
Jane is a housewife. James sells guns. They live in one of the larger cities in Our Country and are both terrified of ethnic youths who might well be wearing hoods and carrying knives,or something. All is well in the Jones household, until their sexually frustrated eighteen-year-old daughter Jenny brings home her new boyfriend, Kwesi Abalo... A visceral, smart, brutally hilarious play about prejudice, arms dealing, and what it means to be English.
Nominated for four Off West End Awards Best Director - Kate Wasserberg Best Female performance - Louise Collins Most Promising Playwright - Nick Gill Best New Play
Jane is a housewife. James sells guns. They live in one of the larger cities in Our Country and are both terrified of ethnic youths who might well be wearing hoods and carrying knives,or something. All is well in the Jones household, until their sexually frustrated eighteen-year-old daughter Jenny brings home her new boyfriend, Kwesi Abalo... A visceral, smart, brutally hilarious play about prejudice, arms dealing, and what it means to be English.
Nominated for four Off West End Awards Best Director - Kate Wasserberg Best Female performance - Louise Collins Most Promising Playwright - Nick Gill Best New Play
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 6 mm
Weight
112 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84943-192-7 (9781849431927)
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Nick Gill was one of The Apathists, who wrote new shorts every month for a year, performed at Theatre 503; other short plays have been seen at Hampstead Theatre, Trafalgar Studios, Soho Theatre and Latitude Festival. Mirror Teeth was written with a grant from the Peggy Ramsay Foundation, and was first seen as a staged reading as part of the original Vibrant! - A Festival of Finborough Playwrights at the Finborough Theatre in 2009.