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Dennis Kelly: Plays One: Debris; Osama the Hero; After the End; Love and Money

Dennis Kelly

Features the plays Debris, Osama the Hero, After the End and Love and Money.

The four plays in this first collection by Dennis Kelly are linked by their characters' desperate need to believe that there is more to life than the often brutal worlds in which they find themselves. Kelly's remarkable debut Debris finds humour and pathos in a spectacularly dysfunctional family unit. The harrowing Osama the Hero shows a group of neighbours taking ill-defined revenge on an odd-ball teenager in a climate of fear. In After the End a woman discovers she has been rescued from Armageddon by a paranoid ex-colleague with a nuclear bunker in his garden. And in a fractured narrative Love and Money portrays a marriage driven to brutal destruction by financial pressures.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Oberon Books
  • Publish Date: Apr 1st, 2008
  • Pages: 288
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.31in - 5.19in - 0.69in - 0.82lb
  • EAN: 9781840028034
  • Categories: European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

About the Author

Kelly, Dennis: - Dennis Kelly's plays include Debris, Osama the Hero, After the End, Love and Money, Taking Care of Baby, DNA, The Gods Weep, Orphans, The Ritual Slaughter of Gorge Mastromas and Girls and Boys. For television he created/cocreated Pulling, Utopia and The Third Day. He also wrote the book for Matilda the Musical.

Praise for this book

"We have a pool of amazingly talented playwrights in Britain, and we also have a quite separate talent pool producing comedy. There is very little dialogue between these two worlds, but Dennis is able to move very easily between them, and that is quite unique." --Mark Ravenhill