What Shadows - Softcover

Hannan, Chris

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1848426275 ISBN 13: 9781848426276

Publisher: Nick Hern Books, 2017

Synopsis

1968. Midlands MP Enoch Powell has something to say. Something that could divide Britain forever.

1992. Rose Cruickshank wants answers. Powell's controversial "Rivers of Blood" speech shattered her childhood and now she is driven to confront the man who made the speech. Will a meeting with Enoch resolve the conflicts that are tearing her – and the country – apart?

About this title

About the Author:

Chris Hannan is playwright and novelist.

His plays include Elizabeth Gordon Quinn (Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, 1985; revived by the National Theatre of Scotland in its inaugural season in 2006); The Evil Doers (Bush Theatre, London, 1990; Time Out Award and Charrington London Fringe Best New Play Award); Shining Souls (Traverse, 1996, revived by the Old Vic in 1997; winner of a Scotland on Sunday Critics Award and a Lloyds Bank Playwright of the Year nomination); The God of Soho (Shakespeare's Globe, 2011); The Three Musketeers and the Princess of Spain (Traverse, English Touring Theatre, Coventry Belgrade, 2011) and What Shadows (Birmingham Rep, 2016).

As well as original plays, Hannan has adapted Crime and Punishment (Glasgow Citizens' Theatre/Liverpool Playhouse/Lyceum Edinburgh, 2013) and The Iliad (Lyceum Edinburgh, 2016); and also made new versions of Ibsen's The Pretenders (RSC, 1991), Gogol's Gamblers (Tricycle 1992), and Stars in the Morning Sky (Coventry Belgrade, 2012).

His 2008 novel Missy was awarded the McKitterick Prize for a debut novel.

Review:

"Chilling... the most provocative theatrical act of the decade." —Telegraph

(2018-10-19)

"An emotive play, dealing with a subject that resonates in the current climate... it would be easy to sensationalise, but Hannan's writing ensures it steers clear of that path, making it, if anything, more chilling... like Powell in his heydey, it is hypnotising. It is simultaneously thoughtful, thought-provoking and difficult to watch." —The Reviews Hub

(2018-10-19)

"A visceral play... Powell seems from another age except that some of his concerns, Islamic fundamentalism and the disenfranchised working class, are the stuff of Brexit Britain." —The Times

(2018-10-19)

"A timely, intelligent, and often poetic play about immigration, identity and the power of words to inflame." —The Stage

(2018-10-19)

About this edition

• Publisher: Nick Hern Books
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1848426275
• ISBN 13: 9781848426276
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 104