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Amphibians
Series: NHB Modern Plays
Imprint: Nick Hern Books
Published in volume The Cavalcaders and Amphibians
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First Staged:
RSC at the Barbican Pit, London, 1992

Amphibians

By Billy Roche
Published in volume The Cavalcaders and Amphibians
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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
Published in volume The Cavalcaders and Amphibians
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Also by Billy Roche:

Poor Beast in the Rain
Belfry
The Cavalcaders and Amphibians
On Such As We
The Cavalcaders
A Handful of Stars
The Wexford Trilogy
Lay Me Down Softly

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