Treetops

Cast: 4f 4m

Staging: 4 interior, 4 exterior sets

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

Published in volume Nicholas Wright: Five Plays
First Staged:
Riverside Studios, London, 1978

Treetops

By Nicholas Wright
Published in volume Nicholas Wright: Five Plays
  • George Devine Award - 1978

Set in Cape Town in 1952, Nicholas Wright's debut play Treetops is about the early resistance to policies of apartheid or racial segregation, based on the author's own rebellious boyhood in his native South Africa.

Treetops was first staged at Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, in 1978, winning the George Devine Award for playwriting.

Press Quotes

'Mr Wright's characters emerge as real people: faulty, sympathetic and funny'

The Times

Cast: 4f 4m

Staging:4 interior, 4 exterior sets

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

Published in volume Nicholas Wright: Five Plays

Also by Nicholas Wright:

His Dark Materials
Mrs Klein
Regeneration
The Last of the Duchess
Three Sisters
Vincent in Brixton
The Slaves of Solitude
Cressida
Naked
The Reporter
Nicholas Wright: Five Plays
Lulu
Rattigan's Nijinsky
The Custom of the Country
John Gabriel Borkman
The Desert Air
8 Hotels
One Fine Day
Thérèse Raquin
Travelling Light

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