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Fragile! (NHB Modern Plays) - cover

Fragile! (NHB Modern Plays)

Tena Štivičić

Publisher: Nick Hern Books

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Summary

A darkly humorous play about the people behind the tabloid stories of migrant workers and sex-trafficking in today's Europe - the first play in English by an award-winning writer of 3 Winters (National Theatre, 2015), who is well-known in her native Croatia.
London 2007: an aspiring actress from Croatia, a Serbian stand-up comedian, a Bulgarian mafioso, a Norwegian journalist, a sex-trafficking victim... Big city, big dreams, big fall.
'a real find... an acute ear for the subtleties of language... strongly recommended' - The Times
'powerfully depicts the real lives behind the new wave of eastern European immigration to the capital' - Time Out
Available since: 05/26/2016.
Print length: 96 pages.

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