Ordinary Decent Criminal
$24.57
- Paperback
88 pages
- Release Date
31 July 2025
Summary
‘This is what it feels like to have something to lose. This is why people only fight when they’ve got nothing to lose.’
It’s the early 1990s and recovering addict Frankie Donnelly has just been sentenced to three and a half years in jail for dealing drugs.
None of Frankie’s fellow convicts are what they seem. In the most unexpected of places, he discovers that the revolution is not dead. It’s just sleeping.
Ordinary Decent Criminal by Ed Edwards is a one-man s…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781839044823 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1839044829 |
| Author: | Ed Edwards |
| Publisher: | Nick Hern Books |
| Imprint: | Nick Hern Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 88 |
| Release Date: | 31 July 2025 |
| Weight: | 105g |
| Dimensions: | 6mm x 129mm x 198mm |
| Series: | NHB Modern Plays |
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Critics Review
‘Immensely watchable’
* The Stage *‘Gripping and subtle… Behind the time bomb humour lies a subtle analysis of the social and cultural reasons these damaged men are behind bars’
* Guardian *‘Superb… a story that grips you from first to last, offering characters to care for and a life story shaded with hair-raising drama, comedy shaded from grey to gallows, and underpinned by a fundamental belief in the power of rebellion’
* Quinntessential Review *‘Unflinching… a clear-eyed look at systemic failure… Edwards’ writing crackles with urgency… A powerful reminder that the revolution isn’t dead; it’s locked up, waiting for someone to listen’
* Theatre & Tonic *‘Gritty… full of heart and power’
* British Theatre Guide *‘Brilliant… a strikingly vivid portrait of the UK as it was around the turn of the millennium, as seen from its dark and revealing underbelly; a portrait powerful both in itself, and in the extent to which it captures the forces that still shape our society today, for better and for worse’
* Scotsman *‘Edwards conveys the prison world with considerable subtlety and shade… it’s hard to turn away’
* WhatsOnStage *Ed Edwards
Ed Edwards is a playwright, screenwriter and novelist. His plays include: Ordinary Decent Criminal (Paines Plough, 2025); England & Son (Edinburgh Fringe & Manchester HOME, 2023); and The Political History of Smack and Crack (Edinburgh Fringe & Soho Theatre, 2018). He has had several original plays broadcast on Radio 4 as well as short films on Channel 4 and BBC2, and has written for several continuing TV drama dramas. He is co-artistic director of Most Wanted Theatre, which he runs along with Eve Steele.
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