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The Fall
Paperback, 88 pages ISBN: 9781848427730Publication Date:
26 Apr 2018
Size: 198mm x 129mm£12.99 £10.39You save £2.60 (20%)
Ebook, 88 pages ISBN: 9781780018058Publication Date:
26 Apr 2018
£12.99 £10.39You save £2.60 (20%)
First Staged:
National Youth Theatre at the Finborough Theatre, London, 2016

The Fall

By James Fritz

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Two teenagers sneak into an old man's home for a secret meeting. A young couple try to build their future whilst looking after an ailing parent. A care home offers its residents the opportunity to unburden their children.

James Fritz's play The Fall takes a funny, moving and candid look at young people's relationships to older people, confronting the frightening prospect of ageing in a country undergoing crises of housing and care.

It was commissioned and premiered by the National Youth Theatre at the Finborough Theatre, London, in 2016, and revived at Southwark Playhouse in 2018.

‘Imagine being him. Every day you wake up. You’re tired. Your body doesn’t work properly… You said it – you’d kill yourself.’

Press Quotes

'Takes a candid look at young people's relationship with their elders, mixing humour with a deeper contemplation of life and death… delicately outspoken writing'

Broadway World

'[A] short, sharp shock of a play... youth theatre at its most mature, and most dazzling'

Guardian

'Perfectly pitched as a play for young actors... sets a new standard for youth theatre'

The Stage

'Intelligent, absorbing... confirms Fritz as a major new voice in British drama'

The Reviews Hub

'It's dreamlike, but gritty at the same time, and gripping... it's a little glimpse of a faintly dystopian future that hits home because it doesn't take things too far... what's impressive about Fritz's writing is that he manages to horrify with his vision of human coldness, and yet it's not propaganda: it recognises that there are no simple statements to be made.'

Exeunt
Paperback,88 pages ISBN: 9781848427730Publication Date:
26 Apr 2018
Size: 198mm x 129mm£12.99 £10.39You save £2.60 (20%)
Ebook,88 pages ISBN: 9781780018058Publication Date:
26 Apr 2018
£12.99 £10.39You save £2.60 (20%)

Also by James Fritz:

Parliament Square
Comment is Free & Start Swimming
James Fritz Plays: One
Ross & Rachel
The Flea
Comment is Free
Lava
Lava
Four Minutes Twelve Seconds
twins
Start Swimming
Skyscraper Lullaby

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