This Wide Night (Paperback)
Language: English
Published by Nick Hern Books, London, 2008
- Softcover
- New

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Paperback. A tender portrayal of two women trying to start again after serving their time in prison.On her release from prison, Lorraine heads straight to Maries. On the inside they used to share everything, but the friendship that once protected them now threatens to smother the fragile freedom they have found.Chloe Moss's play This Wide Night was first performed at Soho Theatre, London, in August 2008, in a production by Clean Break, the theatre, education and new writing company that works with women whose lives have been affected by the criminal justice system. It was revived, in this revised version, at Soho Theatre in November 2009.This Wide Night won the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize in 2009.'Heartrending. beautifully written: comic, colourful, full of pain and tenderness and truth' The TimesSusan Smith Blackburn Prize Touching, down-to-earth two-hander about two women recently released from gaol. Marie, twenty-something, and Lorraine, early fifties, have shared a cell. Now Marie is in her own bedsit, coping with life on the outside just about. That is until poor, hopeless Lorraine shows up Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…
Seller Inventory # 9781848420021
- Title
- This Wide Night (Paperback)
- Author
- Chloe Moss
- Publisher
- Nick Hern Books, London
- Publication year
- 2008
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1848420021
- ISBN 13
- 9781848420021
Written for Clean Break—a theater company working with women whose lives have been affected by the criminal justice system. This Wide Night is a tender portrayal of two damaged women trying to repair their broken lives.
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About the Author
Chloë Moss is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter. Her plays include: Run Sister Run (Paines Plough, Soho Theatre & Sheffield Theatres, 2020); The Gatekeeper (Royal Exchange, Manchester, 2012); Fatal Light (part of Clean Break & Soho Theatre's Charged season, 2010); This Wide Night (Clean Break and Soho Theatre, 2008; winner of the 2009 Susan Smith Blackburn prize); The Way Home (Everyman, Liverpool, 2006); Christmas is Miles Away (Royal Exchange, Manchester, 2005; Bush Theatre, London, 2006) and How Love Is Spelt (Bush Theatre, London, 2004).
She has also written extensively for television. Credits include Six Wives (BBC One), Dickensian (BBC One), New Tricks (BBC One), The Smoke (Sky1) and Prisoners' Wives (BBC One).
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