Hard to Swallow
New edition with bonus features
$24.34
- Paperback
104 pages
- Release Date
8 September 2020
Summary
2020 Edition
Suitable text for GCSE 9-1 Drama
Based on Maureen Dunbar’s award-winning book and film Catherine: The Story of a Young Girl Who Died of Anorexia Nervosa. Catherine Dunbar died in 1984, after a seven-year battle against anorexia nervosa. She was just twenty-two.
Mark Wheeller’s potent documentary play uses the words from Catherine’s diaries and also of those most closely involved and affected.
This 2020 edition includes a foreword by the late Mauree…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781913630249 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1913630242 |
| Author: | Mark Wheeller |
| Publisher: | Salamander Street Limited |
| Imprint: | Salamander Street Limited |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 104 |
| Release Date: | 8 September 2020 |
| Weight: | 142g |
| Dimensions: | 129mm x 198mm |
| Audience Age: | 13-17 |
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Critics Review
“This play reaches moments of almost unbearable intensity… naturalistic scenes flow seamlessly into sequences of highly stylised theatre… such potent theatre!“Vera Lustig, The Independent”Elegantly structured, highly informative, and imaginatively theatrical. There wasn’t a dry eye in the house.“Anne McFerran, Stage and Television Today
Mark Wheeller
Mark Wheeller’s most recent plays, “Can You Hear Me Major Tom” (Verbatim Bowie fan tribute play) and “This Is For You” (Immersive, Ronson inspired fictional, unplanned teenage pregnancy story) are now available.
His play “Troll” was released telling the dreadful true story of the murder of fourteen-year-old Breck Bednar.
Mark offers workshops to schools here and abroad. His workshops offer the incredible stories behind his most well-known plays and also offer ideas for study/rehearsing.
He is also the author of the RoSPA 1994 award-winning comic.
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