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    The Baby (NHB Modern Plays)

    By Chris Hannan

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    Rome, 78 BC. The ruler, Sulla, has just died, and professional mourners have been appointed to wail at his state funeral. But Sulla was hated by the poor and the working classes, and the wailers - led by Macu - threaten to strike, with dire consequences for them and for Macu's daughter...

    Written in vivid, contemporary language, Chris Hannan's modern epic The Baby is about a polyglot, violent city at the heart of a divided nation.

    The play was first produced at the Tron Theatre, Glasgow, in October 1990, directed by Michael Boyd.

    'An epic play humanised by Hannan’s concerns for the lives of ordinary people caught up in events seemingly beyond their control' The Times

    'A period epic complete with all the trappings you would expect from the great Elizabethan and Jacobean classicists who wowed their audiences with heightened language, earth-shattering emotion, weighty moral dilemmas, lowbrow comedy and disturbing, bloody tragedy.' Scotland on Sunday

    'Chris Hannan's new play explores love and the grief it can engender when marred by circumstances. And for the fullness of that grief, add in anger and guilt, distraction to the point of self-destruction, and bewildered hurt that makes flesh feel as if skin would burst, it is so uncontainable. The context is Ancient Rome but the issues are timeless and on-going... touching directly on any place or age where ordinary lives are wracked by power politics.' The Herald

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNick Hern Books
    Release dateJun 8, 2017
    ISBN9781780018454
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    The Baby (NHB Modern Plays)
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    Chris Hannan

    His plays include Elizabeth Gordon Quinn (Traverse 1985); The Evil Doers (Time Out Award 1990 and Charrington London Fringe Best New Play Award); Shining Souls which opened at the Traverse in 1996 and was revived by the Old Vic in 1997, winning a Scotland on Sunday Critics Award and a Lloyds Bank Playwright of the Year nomination. In 2006 Elizabeth Gordon Quinn was revived by the National Theatre of Scotland in its inaugural season. The God of Soho was staged by Shakespeare’s Globe (2011) and The Three Musketeers and the Princess of Spain (Traverse, English Touring Theatre, Coventry Belgrade) was nominated in the 2011 CATS (Critics’ Awards for Theatre in Scotland) in four categories, winning Best New Play and Best Ensemble. As well as original plays, Hannan has adapted Crime and Punishment (Glasgow Citizens’ Theatre/Liverpool Playhouse/Lyceum Edinburgh, 2013) and The Iliad (Lyceum Edinburgh, 2016); and also made new versions of Ibsen’s The Pretenders (RSC, 1991), Gogol’s Gamblers (Tricycle 1992), and Stars in the Morning Sky (Coventry Belgrade, 2012). His 2008 novel Missy was awarded the McKitterick Prize for a debut novel.

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