The Authorised Kate Bane

Cast: 2f (aged thirty and sixty-one), 2m (aged thirty-four and sixty-two)

Staging: various settings

Amateur rights performance fee: £85 per performance (plus VAT where applicable)

Paperback, 120 pages ISBN: 9781848423091Publication Date:
11 Oct 2012
Size: 198mm x 129mm£12.99 £10.39You save £2.60 (20%)
Ebook, 120 pages ISBN: 9781780011844Publication Date:
15 Nov 2012
£12.99 £10.39You save £2.60 (20%)
First Staged:
Grid Iron at the Traverse, Edinburgh, & Tron Theatre, Glasgow, 2012

The Authorised Kate Bane

By Ella Hickson

Paperback £12.99£10.39

Ebook £12.99£10.39

A painfully comic excavation of a family history that asks if there is an authorised version of the past - or just the one we can live with.

Kate Bane returns home to her parents for a winter weekend to introduce her new boyfriend. As the snow falls, Kate finds herself searching with increasing desperation for the truth about her family's past. Are her memories fact, or are they continually shifting acts of imagination?

Unable to pin down the truth, can she write a version of the family mythology that will ensure her own happiness?

Ella Hickson's play The Authorised Kate Bane first performed at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, in October 2012 in a production by Grid Iron Theatre Company. It then transferred to the Tron Theatre, Glasgow.

'You retrospectively add importance - to create a narrative - but at the time it wasn't important at all.'

Press Quotes

'Couples the uncertainty of Six Characters in Search of an Author with the soul-bearing family relevations of a minor Tennessee Williams play'

The Guardian

'Fascinating... an Escher-like playfulness in its examination of the nature of creation'

The Stage

'An amusing piece, well-crafted'

The List

Cast: 2f (aged thirty and sixty-one), 2m (aged thirty-four and sixty-two)

Staging:various settings

Amateur rights performance fee: £85 per performance (plus VAT where applicable)

Paperback,120 pages ISBN: 9781848423091Publication Date:
11 Oct 2012
Size: 198mm x 129mm£12.99 £10.39You save £2.60 (20%)
Ebook,120 pages ISBN: 9781780011844Publication Date:
15 Nov 2012
£12.99 £10.39You save £2.60 (20%)

Also by Ella Hickson:

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

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