Frozen
Published on 3. May 2018
112 pages
978-0-571-34901-2 (ISBN)
Description
Four days ago
phone call from the police
They think they have some news for us
Can they come over?
A psychological thriller about a mother whose child goes missing; a play about retribution, remorse and redemption and the interwoven lives of three strangers as they try to make sense of the unimaginable.
Bryony Lavery's Frozen was winner of the TMA Best New Play award and the Eileen Anderson Central Television Award for Best Play. Frozen premiered at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in 1998. The play was revived at the National Theatre, London, in 2002 and at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, in February 2018.
'Bryony Lavery's big, brave, compassionate play about grief, revenge, forgiveness and bearing the unbearable.' Guardian
phone call from the police
They think they have some news for us
Can they come over?
A psychological thriller about a mother whose child goes missing; a play about retribution, remorse and redemption and the interwoven lives of three strangers as they try to make sense of the unimaginable.
Bryony Lavery's Frozen was winner of the TMA Best New Play award and the Eileen Anderson Central Television Award for Best Play. Frozen premiered at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in 1998. The play was revived at the National Theatre, London, in 2002 and at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, in February 2018.
'Bryony Lavery's big, brave, compassionate play about grief, revenge, forgiveness and bearing the unbearable.' Guardian
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Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
File size
0,64 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-571-34901-2 (9780571349012)
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Bryony Lavery's plays include Her Aching Heart (Pink Paper Play of the Year 1992) and A Wedding Story (2000). Her play Frozen, commissioned by Birmingham Repertory Theatre, won the TMA Best Play Award, the Eileen Anderson Central Television Award, and was then produced on Broadway where it was nominated for 4 Tony awards. She also wrote Last Easter, produced in The Door, and created adaptations of Uncle Vanya and A Christmas Carol as an associate artist for The REP. Stockholm, with Frantic Assembly, won the Wolff-Whiting award for Best Play of 2008. Recent work includes Beautiful Burnout for the National Theatre of Scotland and Frantic Assembly, which received a Fringe First at Edinburgh; The Believers with Frantic Assembly at the Theatre Royal Plymouth and the Tricycle; Kursk with Sound and Fury at the Young Vic and Sydney Opera House; Cesario for the National Theatre; Thursday at the Adelaide Festival; Queen Coal at the Studio, Sheffield; and an adaptation of Tales of the City/ More Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin for BBC Radio 4. Forthcoming work includes stage adaptations of 101 Dalmatians for Chichester Festival Theatre; Brideshead Revisited for York Theatre Royal; and Picnic at Hanging Rock for ETT/Brink. Bryony Lavery is an honorary Doctor of Arts at De Montfort University and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
