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Making Noise Quietly (short play)
Series: NHB Modern Plays
Imprint: Nick Hern Books
Published in volume Making Noise Quietly: three short plays
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First Staged:
Bush Theatre, London, 1986

Making Noise Quietly (short play)

By Robert Holman
Published in volume Making Noise Quietly: three short plays
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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.

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'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
Series: NHB Modern Plays
Imprint: Nick Hern Books
Published in volume Making Noise Quietly: three short plays
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Also by Robert Holman:

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

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