Friendly Fire & Eclipse - Softcover

Armitage, Peter

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9780571206988: Friendly Fire & Eclipse
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ISBN 10: 0571206980 ISBN 13: 9780571206988
Publisher: Peter Gill and Simon Armitage, 2000

Synopsis

Armitage's "Eclipse", written for a cast of 7, is set on a Cornish beach in August 1999 where a strange girl appears among a group of friends. Gill's "Friendly Fire" is for a cast of 10. The play is an exploration of the way "useless" young men are sent off to fight courageously.

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About the Author

Peter Gill was born in 1939 in Cardiff and started his professional career as an actor. A director as well as a writer, he has directed over a hundred productions in the UK, Europe and North America. At the Royal Court Theatre in the sixties, he was responsible for introducing D. H. Lawrence's plays to the theatre. The founding director of Riverside Studios and the Royal National Theatre Studio, Peter Gill lives in London. His plays include The Sleepers Den (Royal Court, London, 1965), Over Gardens Out (Royal Court, London, 1968), Small Change (Royal Court, London, 1976), Kick for Touch (National Theatre, London, 1983), Cardiff East (National Theatre, London, 1997), Certain Young Men (Almeida Theatre, 1999), The York Realist (English Touring Theatre, 2001), Original Sin (Sheffield Crucible, 2002), Another Door Closed (Theatre Royal, Bath, 2009) and A Provincial Life (National Theatre of Wales, Sherman Cymru, Cardiff, 2011). Simon Armitage was born in West Yorkshire and is Professor of Poetry at the University of Sheffield. A recipient of numerous prizes and awards, he has published eleven collections of poetry, including Paper Aeroplane: Selected Poems 1989-2014 and his acclaimed translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (2007). He also writes extensively for television and radio and is the author of two novels and the non-fiction bestsellers All Points North (1998) Walking Home (2012), and Walking Away (2015). His theatre works include The Last Days of Troy, performed at Shakespeare's Globe in 2014. In 2010 he received the CBE for services to poetry and in 2015 was appointed Professor of Poetry at Oxford University.

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Publisher
Peter Gill and Simon Armitage
Publication date
2000
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0571206980
ISBN 13 
9780571206988
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
112
Rating
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9780748742905: Eclipse/Friendly Fire (Connections)

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ISBN 10:  0748742905 ISBN 13:  9780748742905
Publisher: Nelson Thornes, 2001
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