Join us on a literary world trip!
Add this book to bookshelf
Grey
Write a new comment Default profile 50px
Grey
Subscribe to read the full book or read the first pages for free!
All characters reduced
Switzerland (NHB Modern Plays) - cover

Switzerland (NHB Modern Plays)

Joanna Murray-Smith

Publisher: Nick Hern Books

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

Summary

1995, the Swiss Alps. Patricia Highsmith, the queen of the thriller, now ageing and ailing, hides away in her study, surrounded by her collection of books and antique weaponry, finding solace in her seclusion, her cats and her cigarettes.
A polished young man turns up, sent by her New York publisher to persuade her to write one final instalment of her best-selling series featuring the master manipulator, Tom Ripley.
But as day breaks over the mountains, it becomes clear that the charming stranger is set on a far more sinister mission.
Joanna Murray-Smith's play Switzerland is a gripping psychological thriller, filled with razor-sharp dialogue. It was first performed at the Sydney Opera House in 2014. The play received its UK premiere at the Ustinov Studio, Theatre Royal Bath, in 2018, before transferring to the Ambassadors Theatre in London's West End.
'A riveting psychological two-hander weaved with a compelling black humour' - The Stage
'A smartly self-referential salute to Patricia Highsmith's riveting crime tales' - Guardian
'A gripping psychological thriller. Creeps up on you and then has you on the edge of your seat' - Sunday Telegraph
'Joanna Murray-Smith demonstrates a Stoppardian gift for pithily combining intelligence, wit and pathos' - Independent
Available since: 12/20/2018.
Print length: 64 pages.

Other books that might interest you

  • The Village Blacksmith - cover

    The Village Blacksmith

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    LibriVox volunteers bring you eleven different recordings of The Village Blacksmith, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of October 1st, 2006.
    Show book
  • Space Girl (NHB Modern Plays) - cover

    Space Girl (NHB Modern Plays)

    Helen Stanley

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    An action-packed play bursting with songs and imagination, celebrating curiosity, resilience and exploration.
    Mary Moon is nine years old and dreams of travelling across the galaxy, just like her brave and brilliant astronaut father. But Mary hasn't seen her dad since last week, and nobody will tell her where he is…
    Follow Mary on her journey through the solar system, as she faces meteors, monsters and the Sea of Sorrow in her mission to bring her dad back home.
    Helen Stanley's play Space Girl was first staged at the Broadway Theatre, London, performed by Lewisham Youth Theatre. It is especially suitable for younger audiences and performers, including those under twelve years old.
    The Nick Hern Books Multiplay Drama series features large-cast plays specifically written to be performed by and appeal to older teenagers and young adults.
    Show book
  • The Great Highway - A Contemplation in Seven Scenes - cover

    The Great Highway - A...

    August Strindberg

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    Life, a fleeting shadow, a whisper in the wind, 
    We wander lost, adrift in the void, 
    Seeking solace in the darkness, 
    Yet finding only echoes of our own despair. 
    What is truth? What is meaning? 
    These questions haunt me, torment me, 
    As I tread the great highway of existence, 
    Alone, and yet surrounded by the clamor of life. 
    Oh, to find redemption in this wilderness, 
    To glimpse the light amidst the shadows, 
    But alas, it eludes me still, 
    A distant dream, a fading hope. 
    And so I wander on, a pilgrim of the soul, 
    Seeking answers in the silence, 
    Hoping against hope for a glimpse of truth, 
    In this vast expanse of nothingness.
    Show book
  • Twelfth Night - cover

    Twelfth Night

    William Shakespeare

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    Twelfth Night, first performed around 1600, probably at the court of Queen Elizabeth I, is the tale of separated brother and sister twins – Sebastian and Viola – and their love entanglements. It also offers the rich comic colours of Sir Toby Belch, Malvolio and Sir Andrew Aguecheek. Twelfth Night is part of Naxos AudioBooks’ exciting new series of complete dramatisations of the works of Shakespeare, in conjunction with Cambridge University Press. It uses the New Cambridge Shakespeare text, as used by the Royal Shakespeare Company and educational institutions across the world.
    Show book
  • The Poetry of Death Volume 1 - cover

    The Poetry of Death Volume 1

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,...

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    Death is a subject that few of us talk about, but many think about and more than a few of us dread.  Whether it is the actual end of our life’s journey or merely a transit point to Heavenly glory its actual point of impact is, obviously, life changing. But what do poets think of it?  How do their minds tangle with the subject and make sense of this?  That’s what we thought too.   Poets as rich and diverse as Longfellow, Hood, Bronte, Burns and Gilbran here share their words, thoughts and visions with us. Death is unavoidable but the journey there should be as informed and enjoyable as possible. On this Volume our readers include Richard Mitchley & Ghizela Rowe.
    Show book
  • Bessie's Resurrection - cover

    Bessie's Resurrection

    Kimberly A. Collins

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    Bessie's Resurrection gives voice to Richard Wright's fictional character Bessie Mears from his novel Native Son (1940). These poems offer Bessie room to articulte her experiences as an African American woman and how she suffes in her unenviable position, powerless and unseen. Here, Bessie's fictive character is self actualized by two historical African American trailblazers: Bessie Coleman and Bessie Smith who lived during the same time period when Bessie's story takes place. These poems, which reimagine their lives, are a microcosim of the lived experiences of African American women who face violence, limitations and challenges, Their voices and bodies are resurrected to articulate their ideas of worth to claim a space to speak not only for themselves but also for their sisters who are voiceless. Their lives become three songs which are analogous to the sections in Wright's novel: Fear, Flight and Fate. While Bessie Mears supplies the soundtrack to Bigger's story, it is Bessie Smith's blues sung by Colie Aziza which serve as the soundtrack for Bessie's Resurrection. This collection of poems, written for all three Bessie's, honors Black women as the necessary backbone to the fight against their voices and their bodies being buried alive.
    Show book