Herons
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published:17th May '01
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
Set around Limehouse Cut and the Lee River in East London, "Herons" is the story of 14-year-old Billy, whose life has been made a misery by his father's actions. As the teenagers that surrond him on his estate step up their campaign of bullying, the play escalates to a violent climax.
"A major new voice in British theatre" (Scotsman) Set around Limehouse Cut and the Lee River in East London, Herons is the disturbing and moving story of fourteen-year-old Billy, whose life has been made a misery by his father's actions. As the teenagers that surround him on the estate step up their campaign of bullying, the play escalates to a violent climax.Commissioned by the Royal Court, Herons premiered there on 18 May 2001.
Stephens is terrific on the rituals of fear and violence * Telegraph *
Simon Stephens' sharp shock of a play . . . Stephens and Joel Horwood (as dramaturg) let the text flow, with staccato scenes sliding into each other as if they're all part of an endless now - time and space funnelled into a single bleak and deserted playground. . . . There are no easy answers, just cycles of hurt. It seems grimly relevant today, as we demonise or dismiss sections of society for self-reassurance. * Stage *
Stephens suggests that there are social factors explaining acts of grotesque cruelty and that the human spirit can never be entirely quashed. . . . It's an unremittingly powerful play * Guardian *
a bracing vision of adolescent cruelty * Evening Standard *
It's in-yer-face theatre at its grimy best * Exeunt *
[A] bracing vision of adolescent cruelty. * Evening Standard *
ISBN: 9780413763709
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 7mm
Weight: 300g
112 pages