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A startling and darkly comic drama about childhood, family and fantasy. Winner of the Bruntwood Prize 2011.
Siblings Tiana, Tionne and Tanika have found themselves home alone. Tiana's keeping it all together by taking charge of housework and homework. But Tionne's experiments are getting stranger and Tanika's starting to act up. As the outside world begins to press in, the three will do anything to keep their secret safe from the adults who come to call.
"A play that is as humane as it is savage... as funny as it is alarming. It is written with as much warmth as it is with truth. It's funny and theatrical and alert and alive. It's terrific." Simon Stephens, playwright and Chair of the Judges for the 2011 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting
Siblings Tiana, Tionne and Tanika have found themselves home alone. Tiana's keeping it all together by taking charge of housework and homework. But Tionne's experiments are getting stranger and Tanika's starting to act up. As the outside world begins to press in, the three will do anything to keep their secret safe from the adults who come to call.
"A play that is as humane as it is savage... as funny as it is alarming. It is written with as much warmth as it is with truth. It's funny and theatrical and alert and alive. It's terrific." Simon Stephens, playwright and Chair of the Judges for the 2011 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting
Price: $26.95
Pages: 96
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Imprint: Nick Hern Books
Publication Date:
27 August 2013
Trim Size: 7.75 X 5.00 in
ISBN: 9781848422766
Format: Paperback
"Deals in harsh realism but hovers, brilliantly suspended, between dark comedy, thriller and an expressive human sympathy worthy of Tennessee Williams." - London Times
"Like a Pitchfork Disney for the Beiber / Primark generation." - A Younger Theatre
"Like a Pitchfork Disney for the Beiber / Primark generation." - A Younger Theatre
JANICE OKOH is an award-winning playwright. Her debut play Egusi Soup first appeared at Menagerie Theatre Company’s Hotbed Festival before going on to be produced at the Soho Theatre in the West End in 2012. She won the 2011 Bruntwood Playwriting Competition, and was shortlisted for the Verity Bargate Award and the Alfred Fagon Award for her play Three Birds. Other recent work includes Top Brass (Theatre 503), radio plays Reunion (BBC Radio 4 Extra) and Carnival (BBC Radio 4).