Tarantula

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Tarantula
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Philip Ridley
SeriesModern Plays
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:64
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129
Category/GenrePlays, playscripts
Literary studies - plays and playwrights
ISBN/Barcode 9781350274457
ClassificationsDewey:822.92
Audience
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint Methuen Drama
Publication Date 20 May 2021
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Of course - as you've no doubt guessed - there's a big 'But Then' moment heading this way... It's a sunny, spring day in East London. On a street corner, two teenagers kiss. One of them is Toni. This is her first kiss. It makes her very happy. But someone is watching. Someone who doesn't care about her happiness at all. And they're about to change Toni's life... forever. Philip Ridley's thrilling new play is a startling exploration of identity, memory, love, and the lengths it takes someone to free themselves from the web of their past.

Author Biography

Philip Ridley was born and grew up in the East End of London. He studied painting at St Martin's School of Art. He has written many highly regarded and hugely influential stage plays: the seminal The Pitchfork Disney (published as a Methuen Modern Classic), The Fastest Clock in the Universe (winner of a Time Out Award, the Critics' Circle Award for Most Promising Playwright, and the Meyer-Whitworth Prize), and Ghost from a Perfect Place (nominated for The Evening Standard Best New Play Award), amongst others. He has also directed three feature films from his own screenplays, such The Reflecting Skin, which won eleven international awards.In 2012 What's On Stage named him a Jubilee Playwright (one of the most influential British writers to have emerged in the past six decades). Philip has won both the Evening Standard's Most Promising Newcomer to British Film and Most Promising Playwright Awards. The only person ever to receive both prizes.