Girl with a Book - Softcover

Nick Wood

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1910067008 ISBN 13: 9781910067000

Publisher: Playdead Press, 2013

Synopsis

Can a Guardian reader really be prejudiced? It s October 2012. Gunmen stop a bus in Pakistan and shoot three girls. For wanting to go to school. How can the writer respond? Knowing nothing about the situation, able to offer little more than outrage he s forced to come out from behind his desk and go into the community searching for answers to help him tell the story of a brave young woman s fight for girls education. When his research uncovers attitudes at odds with his liberal convictions he also has to deal with what he learns about himself. A Girl With A Book, written and first performed by Nick Wood is a searing examination of modern society

About this title

Review:

Thrilling theatre does not take much. A good text, a close look, an empty stage, a few props, a teapot, fruit and an actress who embodies fathers and daughters alike. --Hamburger Abendblatt

The easy option when hearing the news of Malala Yousafzai's shooting is to think that Pakistan is somewhere so distant, inhabited by people so different, that you could never understand why it happened. Wood rather invites us to better understand Malala, her father, and her kinsmen. --On Religion Journal

It was a journey into empathy and imagination coolly and cleanly done. A crucially important tale well told with great humanity. --Stephen Lowe, playwright

About the Author:

Plays include Warrior Square, Mia, Birdboy, My Name is Stephen Luckwell, A Dream of White Horses. Nick began his career as an actor, became a teacher before leaving teaching to write full time. His commissions include the Crucible, Theatr Iolo, Radio 4, Eastern Angles, and Nottingham Playhouse. His work has been performed extensively in Europe where he has been commissioned by the Thalia Theater, Hamburg, the Hans Otto Theater, Potsdam and Kazaliste Voriovitica in Croatia. He is an RSC Learning Associate.

About this edition

• Publisher: Playdead Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1910067008
• ISBN 13: 9781910067000
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 44