By A Thread' & 'The Raft' (Modern Plays)

Gough, Lucy

ISBN 10: 041377581X / ISBN 13: 9780413775818

Published by Methuen Drama, 2006

About this Item

Features two plays: "By a Thread" explores the immediate experience of adolescent insecurity and issues of responsibility, love, jealousy and death; and "The Raft" - produced by BBC Radio 4 - offers a moving and daring exploration of a young mother's struggle to survive the desolation of prison and separation from her son. Series: Modern Plays. Num Pages: 128 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 8. Weight in Grams: 108. . 2006. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: By A Thread' & 'The Raft' (Modern Plays)
• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 041377581X
• ISBN 13: 9780413775818
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Two plays for secondary schools by WJEC playwright



Two plays pitting characters in perilous situations to explore issues of responsibility, love, death and the instinct to survive.By a Thread: Four survivors struggle to flee the horrific reality of an apocalyptic war. As they retreat up the mountain, they discover conflict and change are inescapably woven into the thread of life: the young couple cannot stop arguing, the soldier refuses to part with his lost friend's head and the old lady would rather stay put and sew her quilt.The Raft: In prison, a despondent teenage mother watches herself sink deeper into the sea of her despair; but the soul seems reluctant and keeps drifting back up, and then her son Robbie starts calling to her ...A resource booklet on 'By a Thread' has been produced by the WJEC for use at Key Stage 3 by teachers of English.

About the Author

Lucy Gough has written extensively for radio and stage and was a scriptwriter for ten years from 1996 for Hollyoaks. Her work includes Catherine Wheel (1991, toured by Scallywag Theatre in Education Company); Our Lady Of Shadows (1994, BBC Radio 3); As To Be Naked (Is the best disguise) (1994, Theatr Clwyd Theatre in Education), shortlisted BBC Wales Writer of the Year Award 1994 and John Whiting Award 1994; Haul (1994); Head (1996, by BBC Radio 4); Wolfskin (1997); Prophetess of Exeter (1997, BBC World Service); The Red Room (1999, BBC Radio 4); The Mermaid's Tail (1999, BBC Radio 4); Judith Beheading Holofernes (2000, BBC Radio 4); Mapping The Soul (2001, Aberystwyth Arts Centre); Gryfhead (2003, Aberystwyth Arts Centre), Wuthering Heights (2003, BBC Radio 4); Mapping The Soul 2 (2005, BBC Radio 4) The White Hare (2008, as part of BBC4 Extra's Man in Black series), also adapted as a short film (2010). A stage version of Wuthering Heights was commissioned and toured from Aberystwyth Arts Centre in 2011 while her radio drama Western Stars was broadcast on Radio 4 in 2011, and BBC Wales in 2012. In 2010 she undertook a 3 month Granada Artists' Award in California and was awarded a Creative Wales Award from the Welsh Arts Council. She currently writes for the BBC drama series Doctors and is a creative research fellow at University of Wales Aberystwyth.