Selected by a panel of judges which included Times drama critic Irving Wardle and Adrian Mole creator Sue Townsend, Releevo, by a previously unperformed author, was the outright winner of the third Verity Bargate Award, established specifically to encourage new writers. Also included in this volume are the two runners-up and a note on the award by playwright Barry Keeffe, who was married to Verity Bargate. Plays included: Releevo by David Spencer Smith by Johnnie Quarrell Made in Spain by Tony Grounds
Selected by a panel of judges which included Times drama critic Irving Wardle and Adrian Mole creator Sue Townsend, Releevo, by a previously unperform...
The first collected edition of the enduring plays by the popular author of The Long Good Friday
Gimme Shelter (Gem, Gotcha, Getaway): 'This brilliantly and cleverly interlinked trio of plays are about fighting and acceptance...Humanism and individuality are the lodestars sought for ...grim but beautifully humorous' Guardian BARBARIANS (KILLING TIME, ABIDE WITH ME, IN THE CITY): "Captures unerringly and with unhistrionic force a sense of life down in Lewisham where unemployment is running rife and demoralisingly among the bored young ... it is not a grim play though the final...
The first collected edition of the enduring plays by the popular author of The Long Good Friday
