Heavy Weather
Published on 2. July 2020
72 pages
978-1-78850-343-3 (ISBN)
Description
Mona is a young woman on the edge. All she sees is the Earth falling apart, but no one really seems to care. Amidst the chaos of competing and contradictory voices, she sets off on a kaleidoscopic journey to find solutions for the planet - and the truth about her family - in the hope that everything might start to make sense again. Lizzie Nunnery's Heavy Weather is a powerful, timely play featuring songs, about one girl's journey through a world teetering on the brink. The play is part of Platform, an initiative from Tonic Theatre in partnership with Nick Hern Books. Aimed at achieving greater gender equality in theatre, Platform comprises big-cast plays with predominantly, or all, female casts, written specifically for performance by young actors.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
File size
1,39 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78850-343-3 (9781788503433)
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Person
Lizzie Nunnery is a scriptwriter and songwriter working in theatre, radio and film.
Her first stage play Intemperance (Liverpool Everyman, 2007) was awarded five stars by the Guardian and shortlisted for the Meyer-Whitworth Award. Narvik (Box of Tricks Theatre, UK tour, 2017) was shortlisted for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and won Best New Play in the UK Theatre Awards. It was described as a 'thrillingly enigmatic memory play' by the Guardian.
Other work includes the co-written verbatim play Unprotected (Everyman/Traverse Theatre, 2006, winner of the Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award), The Swallowing Dark (Liverpool Playhouse/Theatre503, 2011), The Sum (Everyman, 2017), The People Are Singing (Manchester Royal Exchange, 2017), The Snow Dragons (National Theatre, 2017) and To Have to Shoot Irishmen (Almanac Arts, UK tour, 2018).
Her radio drama series, Daphne: A Fire in Malta, was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2019. Lizzie is also a singer and musician, collaborating with composer Vidar Norheim.
Content
- Intro
- Title page
- Contents
- Platform
- Introduction
- Production Note
- HEAVY WEATHER
- Scene One: Stopped, Still, Frozen
- Scene Two: Mona and the Influencer
- Scene Three: Arrival
- Scene Four: Mona and the Guru
- Scene Five: Media Eyes
- Scene Six: Mona and the Safe Space
- Scene Seven: Mona and the Storyteller
- Scene Eight: Mona and Her Mother
- Scene Nine: Mona and the Mud
- Scene Ten: What's Stopping Us?
- Scene Eleven: A Following
- Original Production Details
- Music
- Hear Me
- Hold Me Like a Newborn Child
- Rise Like Water
- We Don't Do That
- About the Author
- Copyright and Performing Rights Information
