Hightide

<b>Includes the plays <i>You Were After Poetry Lyre Ned & Sharon</i> and <i>Weightless</i></b><br/><br/>The four plays in this volume formed the centrepiece of the inaugural HighTide Festival in Halesworth Suffolk in 2007. Developing plays from the first draft to first performance HighTide is the first new-writing theatre festival to focus on exclusively on young artists. The volume has a preface by Bill Nighy. <i>You Were After Poetry</i>by Steven Bloomer A fast-paced and witty relationship comedy showing a couple's break-up and its after-effects. <i>Lyre</i> by Megan Walsh A harp takes centre stage in this beautiful tale of an uncomfortably close brother and sister. <i>Ned & Sharon</i>by Sam Holcroft A story of love and tenderness about a troubled teenager in a care home. <i>Weightless</i> by Sarah Cuddon An exquisitely imagined account of the first female British astronaut's selection and journey into space.