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I and The Village
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Description
So maybe I just want to opt out you know? Maybe I don't to be part of the master plan. The big assembly line in the sky.
Summer in small-town America. Aimee Stright wants to be Banksy in a town that hates vandals. As outsiders investigate what happened on the day she walked into a church with a gun, it seems Aimee is one against the world and the world wants to know why.
Shortlisted for the Bruntwood Playwriting Prize, I And The Village is a coming-of-age story that asks pointed questions about conformity, dissent and America's devotion to guns.
The play received its world premiere at Theatre503, London, on 9 June 2015.
Product details

Published | 10 Jul 2015 |
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Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 96 |
ISBN | 9781474248433 |
Imprint | Methuen Drama |
Series | Modern Plays |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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It's that rarest of things – a genuinely emotionally engaging dilemma play, blooming into a funny, full-hearted exploration of cultural relativism, moral absolutes and the plurality of womanhood.
The Stage on 'Gather Ye Rosebuds'
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Silva Semerciyan's 'I and The Village' is a confident look at gun culture in the USA. . . . The way that Aimee's community chose to bury their responsibility for the deaths that bloody the church is a powerful metaphor for America's blinkeredness to the violence resulting from their right to keep and bear arms. . . . Semerciyan's dialogue zings . . . this individual story carries universal weight.
Time out London