Ridley Plays

<p>This second volume of Ridley's stage plays confirms him as one of the<br/>most imaginative daring and unique voices currently working in<br/>theatre. All four plays collected here resonant with Ridley's trademark<br/>themes - East London storytelling moments of shocking violence <br/>memories of the past fantastical monologues and that strange mix of<br/>the barbaric and the beautiful he has made all his own.</p><p><i><b><br/>Vincent River: </b></i> '... a grieving mother and a traumatized teenager<br/>meet as adversaries rough each other up and eventually bond over a<br/>barbaric act of cruelty...Ridley asks<br/>questions lots of them about how people respond to the loss of<br/>innocence in their lives how they hold onto their sanity in the face<br/>of savagery and how they fight to keep the bonds of humanity intact in<br/>a mad mad world.' <i>Variety</i></p><br/><p><i><b><br/>Mercury Fur: </b></i> '...depicts a scary post-apocalyptic London where in<br/>their struggle to survive a group of youths are reduced to organising<br/>parties that cater for the most perverted tastes.' <i>Independent</i></p><br/><p><br/><i><b><br/>Leaves of Glass: </b></i> 'There is a different kind of murder going on here: <br/>the murder of truth that goes on in all families to a lesser or greater<br/>degree. As with nations a family's history is written by the victors.' <i>Guardian</i></p><br/><p><i><b><br/>Piranha Heights: </b></i> 'The extravagance of Ridley's dark vision suggests a<br/>dangerously confused society in which individuals seize on random<br/>gobbets of semi-digested information and use them to construct their<br/>own personal narrative.' <i>The<br/>Times</i></p>