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Jack Thorne Plays: Two
After the breakout success of his early work for stage and screen, Jack Thorne turned for inspiration to his own family for a series of plays about hope, idealism and domestic politics. The work in this collection - five full-length plays and two shorts - showcases his extraordinary ability to combine electrifying dialogue with heartfelt warmth, candour and humour. Hope (Royal Court Theatre, 2014) is a funny and scathing fable about the leaders of a local council faced with savage funding cuts. 'A surprisingly entertaining state-of-the-nation drama' The Stage The Solid Life of Sugar Water (Graeae/Theatre Royal Plymouth, 2015) is an intimate, tender play about loss, hurt and rediscovery. 'Sta...
Bunny
Won the Fringe First Award, Edinburgh 2010. An exhilarating coming-of-age drama for a solo performer.
Jack Thorne Plays
The first collection of plays by one of the UK's most exciting young writers.
After Life
A new play by Jack Thorne adapted from Hirokazu Kore-eda's award-winning film
Greenland
What on earth is happening to our planet? And who knows what to do? Certainties are few: every living thing is related to every other living thing; our actions have consequences; change is continual and inevitable. The National Theatre asked four of the country's most exciting writers to investigate. The team spent six months interviewing key individuals from the worlds of science, politics, business and philosophy to create a fast-paced and provocative new play. Greenland premiered at the National Theatre, London, in February 2011.
2nd May 1997
Thorne's play '2nd May 1997' is a drama set over the course of the 1997 UK General Election in which the Labour Party under the leadership of Tony Blair won a landslide victory over the Conservatives. The play presents three separate personal stories from different points on the political spectrum as the scale of Labour's victory becomes clear.
Stacy
Double volume of plays from this "challenging, disturbing and distinctive new voice" (London Times).
Stuart: A Life Backwards
‘Stuart does not like the manuscript. He’s after a bestseller, “like what Tom Clancy writes”. “But you are not an assassin trying to frazzle the president with anthrax bombs,” I point out. You are an ex-homeless, ex-junkie psychopath, I do not add.’
Hope
A play about the moral challenges of cutting local government services, written with Jack Thorne's trademark wit, intelligence and humanity.
Burying Your Brother in the Pavement
A play for young people from one of the most exciting playwrights around.
