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Falling Petals 2nd UK ed. Edition
Author(s): Ben Ellis (Author)
- Publisher: Currency Press
- Publication Date: March 1, 2006
- Edition: 2nd UK ed.
- Language: English
- Print length: 78 pages
- ISBN-10: 086819784X
- ISBN-13: 9780868197845
Book Description
Something strange is happening in the country town of Hollow – a mysterious syndrome that seems to strike only the young. The town is quarantined, schools are closed and fences go up. Guards patrol new enforced borders, but amongst the townsfolk denial runs deep. Part science-fiction, part satire, Falling Petals 2nd UK ed. Edition is a darkly humorous fable about the consequences of a culture of disposable youth that blasts the urban/rural fissure open.
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About the Author
BEN ELLIS is an experienced writer for stage and screen. Ben’s play Falling Petals has been produced widely throughout Australia and New Zealand, won him the New York City Wal Cherry Award for Best New Dramatist, and was shortlisted for the Victoria Premier’s Award. He won the Patrick White Playwright Award and the Malcolm Robertson Prize for his play Post Felicity, and was shortlisted for both the NSW and QLD Premiers’ Awards for his play These People. His writing for Headlong’s Decade project in London directed by Rupert Goold, was singled out by The Wall Street Journal as a standout piece alongside others by Abi Morgan, Mike Bartlett and Christopher Shinn. Other collaboratively written theatre projects include Life for Beginners, Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover and 360 Positions in a One Night Stand. He was awarded 2015’s Writer-in-Residence at the Langham, London. His other produced plays include The Armour, Going Bush, Bird (co-written with Nikki Williams), What Will Survive Us, Story of the Red Mountains.
