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Bracken Moor
Author(s): Alexi Kaye Campbell (Author)
- Publisher: Nick Hern Books
- Publication Date: 11 Jun. 2013
- Language: English
- Print length: 96 pages
- ISBN-10: 1848423322
- ISBN-13: 9781848423329
Book Description
After years apart two families come together to rediscover their lost friendship. As they try to move forward they are plunged into a terrifying encounter with the past. Struggling to make sense of the extraordinary events that unfold before their eyes even the strongest of beliefs are shaken to the core. Award winning writer Alexi Kaye Campbell’s haunting new play, set against the economic crisis of the 1930s, is a boldly theatrical tale of grief and denial. It receives its world premiere at London’s Tricycle Theatre – in a co production with the acclaimed theatre company Shared Experience – in the spring of 2013.
Editorial Reviews
Review
The most compelling, of his plays so far in combining a J B Priestley northern domestic scenario with a ghostly touch of The Turn of the Screw. –whatsonstage.com
A bold play that revels in its own theatricality… skilfully recreates the feel of the 1930s, not least in the beautifully judged, slightly formal language which never lets us forget that his main subject is grief.– Arts Desk
There are echoes of The Weir and Sarah Waters’ novel The Little Stranger here, alongside a distant, intriguing hint of All My Sons. It’s fascinating to watch Campbell pit English stiff upper lips against the fathomless region of the subconscious and watch the emotional disarray that results. –Evening Standard
