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Nick Hern Books
Out of Your Knowledge
Series: NHB Modern Plays
Imprint: Nick Hern Books
Ebook, 34 pages ISBN: 9781780018614Publication Date:
28 Mar 2017£3.99 £3.19You save £0.80 (20%)
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First Staged:
Menagerie Theatre Company, 2006; Edinburgh Fringe, 2008

Out of Your Knowledge

By Steve Waters

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A short play that explores our changing attitudes towards the landscape as acclaimed playwright Steve Waters retraces the journey of John Clare, the nineteenth-century English poet who escaped his lunatic asylum in Essex and walked for over a hundred miles to reach his home village.

Also available in the collection Steve Waters: Shorts.

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'Wonderfully rich and evocative'

British Theatre Guide

'Tender, wistful and bleakly funny... Out of Your Knowledge suggests that the journeys we take are often deep into ourselves'

Guardian

'Impressive and wonderful... a fantastic piece of story telling which fully uses all of the magic of theatre'

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Series: NHB Modern Plays
Imprint: Nick Hern Books
Ebook,34 pages ISBN: 9781780018614Publication Date:
28 Mar 2017£3.99 £3.19You save £0.80 (20%)
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Also by Steve Waters:

The Secret Life of Plays
In a Vulnerable Place
The Last King of Scotland
Limehouse
The Contingency Plan
Death of a Cyclist
Temple
The Play About Calais
Resilience
On the Beach
Steve Waters: Shorts
Ignorance/Jahiliyyah
Fast Labour
The Contingency Plan
Little Platoons
Why Can't We Live Together?
The Unthinkable
World Music

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