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Description
12 year old Delilah enjoys High School Musical, swim parties and ogling the lodger. Whilst her parents throw verbal grenades at one another, they barely notice their 21 year old tenant starting to notice her.
The debut play by Anya Reiss, written when she was seventeen, it looks at the distance between close family relations and a young girl on the brink of adolescence.
Product details
Published | 24 Aug 2012 |
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Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 96 |
ISBN | 9781849436441 |
Imprint | Oberon Books |
Series | Oberon Modern Plays |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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Reiss's raw, edgy play deals with the impetuous passion of a pre-teen girl for her family's lodge. Reiss combines sardonic observation with confessional honesty. "Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising," Cyril Connolly wrote; but I've a hunch Reiss has the strength to survive such dangerous labels. 3 stars
Michael Billington, The Guardian
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This is the most accomplished debut from a young playwright I've ever had the pleasure to see. A sharp-as-cat-claws drama, by a playwright who has only just sat her A-levels. The tyro playwright inhabits different generational mindsets with equal emotional fluency, wit and insight. Ignore the bland title this is a fresh, funny and blistering indictment of the way we live, parent and grow to maturity now. Whether you're 17 or 70, go marvel. 4 stars
Dominic Cavendish, The Telegraph
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Wow! Writers over the lofty age of, say, 20 will find themselves weeping with envy. Anya Reiss, an 18-year-old A-Level student has produced a debut drama of astounding accomplishment
Fiona Mountford, Evening Standard
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A remarkably accomplished debut . A startlingly sophisticated play
Sam Marlowe, Time Out (London)
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There is an amazing maturity about this debut Reiss is a genuine discovery
Michael Billington, The Guardian
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Vivid and spiky... Reiss' ear for dialogue is so sharp
Susannah Clapp, The Observer