Verlag:
Bloomsbury, London
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
'Eleven Vests', first presented in 1997 by Big Brum Theatre in Education, is a cold and powerful examination of the mechanisms of authority and violence. One person, known as Student, is involved in two events: one at school, and one later as a...
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'Eleven Vests', first presented in 1997 by Big Brum Theatre in Education, is a cold and powerful examination of the mechanisms of authority and violence. One person, known as Student, is involved in two events: one at school, and one later as a soldier in the army. He is first accused of having slashed a book and a fellow student's jacket, and is confronted by the head teacher. The Student meets the Head's accusations with silence and passivity, to begin with. Years later, the Student is being taught how to use a rifle and bayonet, his instructor cultivating the violence which will be used on the battlefield. 'Eleven Vests' places the adult and child side by side, gesturing to the links between them, and questioning the origins of violence and responsibility.
Verlag:
Bloomsbury, London
;
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
In an electric confrontation between daughter, boyfriend and father, 'Tuesday' forces its audience to consider the inhumanity of war and the oppression of children by their parents. A sixteen-year-old girl, Irene, sits alone in her bedroom studying...
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In an electric confrontation between daughter, boyfriend and father, 'Tuesday' forces its audience to consider the inhumanity of war and the oppression of children by their parents. A sixteen-year-old girl, Irene, sits alone in her bedroom studying for exams. Her soldier boyfriend Brian arrives unexpectedly from active service abroad, struggling under the weight of what he has seen. He has run away from the army barracks, and so when Irene's father returns from the job centre, he tries to make Brian go back. But what occurs in the small room during the next ninety minutes changes everything for all three of them. Bond writes of violence with anger and with intelligence as Irene leaps towards self-knowledge. 'Tuesday' was first broadcast in 1993.
