Sea and Land and Sky
1st Edition
Published on 7. October 2010
96 pages
978-1-4081-4057-4 (ISBN)
Description
Set in 1916, three young women from the Scottish Women's Hospital are sent to the Russian front to support the war effort. Ailsa is working class and determined to make an impression on her superiors, Millicent is a self-confessed hedonist and Lily is searching for her lost husband. Unprepared for what they witness, each must find a way of coping as they fight to survive an experience that will change them forever.
Poetic, visionary and startlingly written, Abigail Docherty's historical play is based on actual diaries of young Scottish nurses who experienced the Great War. Often darkly funny and raw in its emotions, Sea and Land and Sky is a gripping and sensual tale of youth, war, memory - and the power of love.
Sea and Land and Sky is boldly inventive, blackly comic, and starkly savage.
Poetic, visionary and startlingly written, Abigail Docherty's historical play is based on actual diaries of young Scottish nurses who experienced the Great War. Often darkly funny and raw in its emotions, Sea and Land and Sky is a gripping and sensual tale of youth, war, memory - and the power of love.
Sea and Land and Sky is boldly inventive, blackly comic, and starkly savage.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-4081-4057-4 (9781408140574)
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Abigail Docherty was was a Scriptwriting Fellow for the Scottish Arts Council from 2003 to 2004 and a visiting writer at the International School of Audio-Visual Creation in Paris in 2003. Her plays include Room (Mayfesto Festival, Tron Theatre), 1000 Paper Cranes (Imaginate International Children's Festival, Goblin Market (Southwark Playhouse) and The Waves (Tristan Bates Theatre).
