Description
This anthology offers eighteen captivating pieces for stage, screen and radio. Each extract explores a distinct dimension of the writers' imaginations with a scope of situations and questions posed at each turn.
Amongst other locations, the writers take us from rural Ireland to suburban Delaware. From the moors around Stoodley Pike to a fishing village in the Philippines. From the coast of Scotland where Hitchcockian seagulls rain down revenge, to a space station falling into serious trouble.
Bear witness as a man believing his wife is unfaithful calls an advice line to hilarious effect. As a student learns new ways to harness political curiosity with the help of her headteacher and a woman tailors her own American citizenship test, challenging its legitimacy and ethics. These are only some of the fantastic stories told.
Introduced by James McDermott, with a foreword by Alice Nutter, the 2024 MA Scriptwriting cohort presents the full spectrum of comedy, tragedy and everything in between.
About the Author
James is a Lecturer in Scriptwriting at The University of East Anglia, tutor for National Theatre's New Views and an Arvon writing tutor. As a poet, James is widely published in journals and magazines including Poetry Wales, The North, Butcher's Dog, Popshot Quarterly, Ink Sweat & Tears and 14 Poems. His poetry collections include 'Wild Life', published by Nine Arches Press, which was shortlisted for The East Anglian Book Award 2023, and the spoken word collection 'Manatomy', published by Burning Eye Books, which was longlisted for the Polari First Book Prize 2021. Alice Nutter is an English musician, best known as part of the anarchist music group Chumbawamba, and writer for theatre, radio and television.
Book Information
ISBN 9781915812629
Author James McDermott
Format Paperback
Imprint UEA Publishing Project
Publisher UEA Publishing Project
