Table (NHB Modern Plays) - Softcover

Tanya Ronder

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1848423284 ISBN 13: 9781848423282

Publisher: Nick Hern Books, 2013

Synopsis

World premiere at the National Theatre for Tanya Ronder's epic generational drama. Part of the first season of plays at the National's newest venue, The Shed

Six generations, nine performers, thirty characters and one very special piece of furniture. Crossing oceans and time Tanya Ronder's thrilling new play is a story of love, loss, life and death, seen through many eyes but with one constant that anchors these stories and ties them all together.

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Review:

Full of surprises and unafraid of oddity... A rich meditation on life's damage and redemption, heredity, family, passion and loss. --The Times

Highly inventive and often touching... there is a great deal of humour, but the play is also dark, sharply depicting the sad human truth that we often inflict the worst pain on those we love, or are supposed to love. --Telegraph

Moves with astonishing dexterity across continents and time... richly textured... The table matters to all (of the many characters): passed on, exported and returned, thumped, scrubbed, scratched, half-wrecked. It witnesses death, sex, birth, play and food... tremendous. --Guardian

About the Author:

TANYA RONDER is an actress and playwright. Her previous plays include an adaptation of DBC Pierre's Booker Prize winning novel Vernon God Little (produced twice, in 2009 and again in 2010, by the Young Vic Theatre), an adaptation of Lope de Vega's Peribanez (also for the Young Vic) and an adaptation of Lorca's Blood Wedding for the Almeida Theatre production starring Gael Garcia Bernal.

About this edition

• Publisher: Nick Hern Books
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1848423284
• ISBN 13: 9781848423282
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96