Making Noise Quietly (short play)

Cast: 1f 1m plus 1 boy (playing age 8)

Staging: Single exterior set

Amateur rights performance fee: £45 per performance (plus VAT where applicable)

First Staged:
Bush Theatre, London, 1986

Making Noise Quietly (short play)

By Robert Holman

The third in Robert Holman's acclaimed trilogy of short plays, also called Making Noise Quietly.

In 1986, in the Black Forest, a German businesswoman takes into her home a fugitive British private and his disturbed stepson.

Making Noise Quietly (the trilogy) was first performed at the Bush Theatre, London, in June 1986.

Press Quotes

'Holman's instinct for truth, and an unaffected ability to spot what's poignant in it, is what one remembers: that, and a paradoxical impression of spare richness, astringent abundance...'

The Times

Cast: 1f 1m plus 1 boy (playing age 8)

Staging:Single exterior set

Amateur rights performance fee: £45 per performance (plus VAT where applicable)

Also by Robert Holman:

Mud
The Lodger
Robert Holman Plays: One
German Skerries
A Breakfast of Eels
Making Noise Quietly: three short plays
Jonah and Otto
The Overgrown Path
Lost
Other Worlds
Holes in the Skin
Today
Bad Weather
Being Friends
The Natural Cause

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