Amphibians

By Billy Roche

A rite-of-passage play in which a twelve-year-old boy spends the night alone on an island - from the author of The Wexford Trilogy.

Billy Roche's play Amphibians was first performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Barbican Pit, London, in 1992.

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'Leaves no doubt that he is one of the finest and most humane dramatists of his generation'

Daily Telegraph

'Roche uses storytelling and memory to recreate the history of a town and its inhabitants... achieves the resonance and force of myth'

Sunday Tribune

Series: NHB Modern Plays

Imprint: Nick Hern Books

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