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Winner of the Bruntwood Prize for Drama 2008. Nominated for Most Promising Playwright, Evening Standard Awards 2011. Nominated for BEST PLAY, What's On Stage Awards 2011
When white secondary school teacher Amanda is pushed to the ground by black student Jason, she's reluctant to report it as she knows exclusion could condemn him to a future as troubled as his past. Once the boy and his peers have decided to protect themselves by spinning a story of their own, Amanda finds herself sucked into a vortex of lies in which victim becomes perpetrator. With the truth becoming increasingly cloudy and more dangerous day by day, it isn't long before careers, relationships and even lives are under threat in this chilling new drama from first time playwright, Vivienne Franzmann.
When white secondary school teacher Amanda is pushed to the ground by black student Jason, she's reluctant to report it as she knows exclusion could condemn him to a future as troubled as his past. Once the boy and his peers have decided to protect themselves by spinning a story of their own, Amanda finds herself sucked into a vortex of lies in which victim becomes perpetrator. With the truth becoming increasingly cloudy and more dangerous day by day, it isn't long before careers, relationships and even lives are under threat in this chilling new drama from first time playwright, Vivienne Franzmann.
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This will do for the inner city secondary school what the History Boys did for posh grammar schools. With its multi-layered plot, societal themes, fertile language and conflicted characters, this is modern Shakespeare by any other name and deserves to be both transferred in time to a larger venue and onto school curricula. --Londonlist.com
Punchy, edgy and hard hitting. Franzmann has a terrific ear for the mercurial shifts of tone and register in teenage exchanges (among themselves and with adults) and equally terrific insight in to the shifting patterns of group dynamics. --Guardian
Crackles with confrontation, accusation, self-justification and threat...Broody, bullying Jason is a perfect expression of adolescent insecurity whose impact is so disastrous on other people and not least himself. It's a sad, sad play, but a very good one, and much, much more than just promising. --WhatsOnStage.com
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Punchy, edgy and hard hitting. Franzmann has a terrific ear for the mercurial shifts of tone and register in teenage exchanges (among themselves and with adults) and equally terrific insight in to the shifting patterns of group dynamics. --Guardian
Crackles with confrontation, accusation, self-justification and threat...Broody, bullying Jason is a perfect expression of adolescent insecurity whose impact is so disastrous on other people and not least himself. It's a sad, sad play, but a very good one, and much, much more than just promising. --WhatsOnStage.com
Vivienne Franzmann was born in 1971. Mogadishu is Vivienne's first published play. The author gave up teaching Drama in a London comprehensive after winning the Bruntwood award in 2008. She lives in East London. Her second play The Witness will be seen at the Royal Court Theatre in 2012.
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- PublisherNick Hern Books
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 1848421338
- ISBN 13 9781848421332
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