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Treetops
Series: NHB Modern Plays
Imprint: Nick Hern Books
Published in volume Nicholas Wright: Five Plays
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First Staged:
Riverside Studios, London, 1978

Treetops

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

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

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Series: NHB Modern Plays
Imprint: Nick Hern Books
Published in volume Nicholas Wright: Five Plays
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Also by Nicholas Wright:

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

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