Penhall Plays

<p>Penhall's 1994 play <i>Some Voices</i> was described as 'the most thrilling playwriting debut in years' by the <i>Sunday Times. </i>He has consistently lived up to and exceeded that early promise as the plays in this second volume of his work testify. Characterised by a taut mood a grappling with moral dilemmas and tough eloquent dialogue punctuated by outrageously comic moments the plays in this volume are: </p><br/><ul><br/><li><i>Blue/Orange: </i> An incendiary tale of race madness and power set in a psychiatric hospital. <i>'Britain's best new play since Michael Frayn's Copenhagen ... thrillingly original' Financial Times</i> <br/></li><li><i>Dumb Show </i>sees TV star Barry caught in a tense game of manipulation and entrapment in this satire on the fame game and the media industry: <i>'Penhall brings the same sharpness and wit to Dumb Show that he did to his hugely successful Blue/Orange' The Times</i> <br/></li><li><i>Wild Turkey</i> (1993): a characteristically taut work about the acrimonious relationships of people in a late-night burger bar. </li></ul><i><br/>'More than any of his peers Penhall has shown a rare aptitude for confronting headline issues of the day using his gift of the gab as a dramatist to interrogate their underlying complexities and contradictions' Daily Telegraph</i>