Burying Your Brother in the Pavement

Burying Your Brother in the Pavement

$26.95

Publication Date: 12th May 2015

A play for young people from one of the most exciting playwrights around.
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A play for young people from one of the most exciting playwrights around.
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Description
A play about grief and looking at someone that little bit more closely.

Tom’s brother Luke is dead. This has upset a lot of people but it hasn’t upset Tom. Or, rather, it has upset him, but in ways he can’t explain and other people can't understand. You see, Tom and Luke were never friends. In fact, Tom didn't really like Luke at all.

So it’s an odd decision - to try and bury Luke in the pavement of the Tunstall Estate where he was killed. But to Tom, it sort of makes sense, in a stupid-weird kind of way. As he sleeps out on the pavement, he comes across planning officials, tramps, undertakers, police officers, sisters, mothers, estate agents, ghosts, pavement elephants, sky dragons and a strange lad called Tight who wants to sell him a Travelcard.

Written specifically for young people, Burying Your Brother in the Pavement was part of the 2008 National Theatre Connections Festival and was premiered by youth theatres across the UK.
Details
  • Price: $26.95
  • Pages: 64
  • Carton Quantity: 60
  • Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
  • Imprint: Nick Hern Books
  • Publication Date: 12th May 2015
  • Trim Size: 5 x 7.75 in
  • ISBN: 9781848424166
  • Format: Paperback
  • BISACs:
    DRAMA / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Author Bio
Jack Thorne’s previous plays include Bunny, Fanny and Faggot, Stacey, When You Cure Me, 2nd May 1997 and Mydidae. His work for television includes cultural phenomenon Skins, and the BAFTA-winning series This is England ’88 and The Fades. On winning the Best British Newcomer Award at the London BFI Film Festival 2009 for The Scouting Book for Boys, he was acclaimed by the jury as ‘a poetic writer with end-of-the-world imagination and a real gift for storytelling.’ His latest play, an adaptation of John Ajvide Linqvist’s Let the Right One In, is currently wowing audiences at the Apollo Theatre in London’s West End.
A play about grief and looking at someone that little bit more closely.

Tom’s brother Luke is dead. This has upset a lot of people but it hasn’t upset Tom. Or, rather, it has upset him, but in ways he can’t explain and other people can't understand. You see, Tom and Luke were never friends. In fact, Tom didn't really like Luke at all.

So it’s an odd decision - to try and bury Luke in the pavement of the Tunstall Estate where he was killed. But to Tom, it sort of makes sense, in a stupid-weird kind of way. As he sleeps out on the pavement, he comes across planning officials, tramps, undertakers, police officers, sisters, mothers, estate agents, ghosts, pavement elephants, sky dragons and a strange lad called Tight who wants to sell him a Travelcard.

Written specifically for young people, Burying Your Brother in the Pavement was part of the 2008 National Theatre Connections Festival and was premiered by youth theatres across the UK.
  • Price: $26.95
  • Pages: 64
  • Carton Quantity: 60
  • Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
  • Imprint: Nick Hern Books
  • Publication Date: 12th May 2015
  • Trim Size: 5 x 7.75 in
  • ISBN: 9781848424166
  • Format: Paperback
  • BISACs:
    DRAMA / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Jack Thorne’s previous plays include Bunny, Fanny and Faggot, Stacey, When You Cure Me, 2nd May 1997 and Mydidae. His work for television includes cultural phenomenon Skins, and the BAFTA-winning series This is England ’88 and The Fades. On winning the Best British Newcomer Award at the London BFI Film Festival 2009 for The Scouting Book for Boys, he was acclaimed by the jury as ‘a poetic writer with end-of-the-world imagination and a real gift for storytelling.’ His latest play, an adaptation of John Ajvide Linqvist’s Let the Right One In, is currently wowing audiences at the Apollo Theatre in London’s West End.