Threads and Other Sheffield Plays (Critical stages) [Paperback]

Howard S. Russell (Author), Dave Sheasby (Author), Barry Hines (Author), Mick Mangan (Editor)

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Book Description

Series: Critical stages | Publication Date: January 1, 1975

This volume comprises three recent plays by Sheffield playwrights, all of them, in very different ways, using the northern industrial city as their location. The plays-one for the stage, one for radio and one for television-show the city in the past, present and future. Howard Russell's Pawnbroker Hocks the Moon (Metro Theatre, 1986) is set in the Sheffield of the 1930s and tells a story of changing personal loyalties and friendships against the background of a steel industry gearing itself up for war. Dave Sheasby's Welcome to the Times (BBC Radio 4, 1986) is a present-day political thriller about corruption-and integrity. In Threads (BBC 2, 1984), Barry Hines, award-winning author of Kes, has produced one of the most powerful and disturbing television plays of recent years-a chilling account set in Sheffield of the probable effects of a nuclear strike in the near future.

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Product Details

Paperback: 230 pages
Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group - Sheffie (January 1, 1975)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1850751404
ISBN-13: 978-1850751403
Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.3 x 0.7 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,191,762 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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