Crocodile Fever
1st Edition
Published on 2. August 2019
96 pages
978-1-78682-788-3 (ISBN)
Description
Northern Ireland, 1989. A farmhouse window smashes, and rebellious Fianna Devlin crashes back into the life of her pious sister Alannah.
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Together for the first time in years, when they're forced to confront their tyrannical father's hideous legacy, all hell breaks loose.
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Fuelled by Taytos, gin, 80s tunes and a chainsaw, Meghan Tyler's surreal Crocodile Fever is a grotesque black comedy celebrating sisterhood whilst reminding us that the pressure cooker of The Troubles is closer than we imagine.
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Together for the first time in years, when they're forced to confront their tyrannical father's hideous legacy, all hell breaks loose.
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Fuelled by Taytos, gin, 80s tunes and a chainsaw, Meghan Tyler's surreal Crocodile Fever is a grotesque black comedy celebrating sisterhood whilst reminding us that the pressure cooker of The Troubles is closer than we imagine.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
978-1-78682-788-3 (9781786827883)
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Person
Meghan Tyler is an award-winning playwright and actor from Newry who trained at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. She is a member of Blood of the Young theatre company. In 2019, she was a winner of the Channel 4 Playwright's Scheme. Recent writing credits include: Medicine (The Hope Theatre); The Persians (Oran Mor in association with the Traverse Theatre); Awoken(Emergent Theatre Conference, Manipulate, Traverse Theatre); Gold Arm Theatre Project: Cyberberg (Blood of the Young, Tron Theatre, Traverse Theatre); and Nothing to be Done (Edinburgh Festival, SETKANI/ENCOUNTER Festival, NEU/NOW Festival).
Content
- Front Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Act One
- Act Two
- Acknowledgements
