Torben Betts: Plays One

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Torben Betts: Plays One

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Author: Torben Betts

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Collection: Oberon Modern Playwrights

Language: English

Published by: Oberon Books

Published on: 2nd August 2016

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 272 pages

ISBN: 9781783197941


Three pitch-black comedies from an exciting new writer: A Listening Heaven, Mummies and Daddies and Clockwatching

A Listening Heaven, which focuses on one family’s painful inability to grieve for a dead son, was first produced in 1999 to critical acclaim at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough, where Betts was the resident dramatist.

Mummies and Daddies, developed at the RNT Studio, brutally yet hilariously lays bare the soullessness of consumerism.

In Clockwatching, produced at both the SJT and the Orange Tree Theatre in 2001, a despotic man descends into helplessness when his servile wife falls seriously ill.

With an introduction by Connal Orton.

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