Black Box 149
Published on 10. April 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
66 pages
978-0-86819-943-6 (ISBN)
Description
Black Box 149 is a captivating thriller that is based on the true story of the grounding of British Airways Flight 149 at Kuwait International Airport during the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990. Why was British Airways the only Western airline in the world that didn't realise something was amiss? Were the British responsible for putting nearly 400 passengers in harm's way? Experience the devastating effects of war and confinement on an innocent man caught in a living nightmare.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Paddington
Australia
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 137 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
Weight
133 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-86819-943-6 (9780868199436)
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R. JOHNS (Rosemary) has a First-Class Honours Drama degree (Manchester University), an MFA from U.C.R. and won a scholarship to Tulane University, New Orleans. Her work has been presented in Cape Town, Stockholm and Mumbai, and her plays have been produced in New Zealand, Athens and Germany. Her political thriller Black Box 149 was part of DFAT's Australia now Germany program. It was the first time the Staatstheater Nÿrnberg has ever produced a play by any Australian playwright. Her World War I play As Told by the Boys Who Fed Me Apples (VCE Drama playlist) was nominated for an AWGIE Award for Community and Youth theatre. The sell-out play Stray was also on the VCE Drama playlist. Johns was shortlisted for the Griffin Playwriting Award with The Birthday Book of Death. Her play At the Centre of Light had an extract published in Scenes from a Diverse World Anthology (US). Her play Carrying Shoes into the Unknown (VCE Theatre Studies playlist), set in Iran, was published Currency Press, with an extract in Contemporary Monologues for Young Men and Women: Volume II (Oberon Books, UK). Other works include Luck of the Draw, about Australian Vietnam veterans. Johns also writes plays for students in rural Victoria.