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ANNA
Paperback, 96 pages ISBN: 9781848428584Publication Date:
23 May 2019
Size: 198mm x 129mm£10.99 £8.79You save £2.20 (20%)
First Staged:
National Theatre, London, 2019

ANNA

By Ella Hickson

Paperback £10.99£8.79

1968. East Berlin.

Anna and Hans are married, in love and moving up in the world – but it is a world ruled by suspicion. Who can be trusted when everyone is listening? Can we ever escape our past?

Written by playwright Ella Hickson, and co-created with sound designers Ben and Max Ringham, ANNA unfolds with all the tension of a spy thriller, and the inexorable revelations of an Ibsen play.

ANNA premiered at the National Theatre, London, in May 2019, directed by Natalie Abrahami, with the audience wearing individual headsets to direct their attention amongst the overlapping scenes on stage. This uniquely formatted edition of the script features all of the play's dialogue, including the scenes seen but not heard in performance.

Extra Content: 'Ella Hickson's radical new play asks its audience to spy on the lives of a nation gripped by revolutionary promise': read an article about ANNA published in The Guardian, 16 May 2019.

Press Quotes

'A swift spy thriller set during the Cold War that's as slick and stylish as it is technologically savvy... a wonderfully plotted play, full of history, mystery and horror... oppressive, intense, and impressively intelligent'

The Stage

'Unpredictable to the last; every time you think you know where things are going, Hickson's script thrills in proving you wrong and the tension never drops... consistently gripping, Anna is a superb spy drama'

BritishTheatre.com

'From the start, the action is taut... it twists and turns, consistently pulling on the threads that join public and private spaces together'

A Younger Theatre

'Electrifying... as unsettling as it is nail-biting... a thrilling hour of Cold War drama that is tautly told... Anna is a rare thing of beauty: a play one hates to stop watching'

The Reviews Hub

'Marvellous... a political thriller with a retro edge... a complex multilayered plot worthy of Le Carré'

The Times

'Intimate and disturbing'

Observer

'A layered, engrossing and remarkable piece... constantly challenges us to look anew, to change our focus'

WhatsOnStage

'Fascinating... Anna is both an audio experiment and an investigation of the lies and suspicion surrounding life in communist East Berlin'

Guardian
Paperback,96 pages ISBN: 9781848428584Publication Date:
23 May 2019
Size: 198mm x 129mm£10.99 £8.79You save £2.20 (20%)

Also by Ella Hickson:

Hot Mess
Oedipus
Oil
PMQ
Swive [Elizabeth]
The Authorised Kate Bane
Wendy & Peter Pan
Eight
Ella Hickson Plays: One
Precious Little Talent & Hot Mess
The Writer
Decade
Boys
Precious Little Talent

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