Dennis Kelly: Plays Two - (Play Anthologies) (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Dennis Kelly is one of the UK's finest contemporary dramatists. This second volume of his work collects together: Our Teacher's a Troll, Orphans, Taking Care of Baby, DNA and The Gods Weep. Also features a foreword by journalist, author and critic, Aleks Sierz.

"Without doubt, Kelly is one of the most multi-talented British playwrights to emerge in the last decade" - Aleks Sierz (from the foreword)

Review Quotes

"A taut, compelling thriller and a modern-day spin on Lord of the Flies, exploring group behaviour and moral equivocation" --Financial Times (On DNA)

"A celebration of naughtiness and questioning, it's a raucous, skin-crawling treat" --The Guardian (On Our Teacher's a Troll)

"A hilarious dark fable" --The Herald (On Our Teacher's a Troll)

"A cast-iron understanding of the morally bankrupt way we live now" --Daily Telegraph (On Orphans)

"In its examination of how stories are told, is an imaginatively realised and moving story" --The Guardian (On Taking Care of Baby)

"Admirable in its ambition and daring, in its willingness to take on huge themes such as destruction and redemption" --Financial Times (On The Gods Weep)

About the Author

Dennis Kelly's plays include Debris (Theatre503/Battersea Arts Centre, 2003), Osama the Hero (Hampstead Theatre, 2004), After the End (Paines Plough/Traverse Theatre/Bush Theatre, 2005), Love and Money (Young Vic/Manchester Royal Exchange, 2006), Taking Care of Baby (Hampstead Theatre/Birmingham Repertory, 2006), DNA (National Theatre, 2008), Orphans (Paines Plough/Traverse Theatre/Soho Theatre/Birmingham Rep, 2009), The Gods Weep (Royal Shakespeare Company, 2010), The Ritual Slaughter of Gorge Mastromas (Royal Court, 2013), Matilda the Musical (Royal Shakespeare Company, 2010) and Pinocchio (National Theatre, 2017). His plays have been performed all over the world and have been translated into nearly thirty languages. For television he co-wrote and created Pulling (Silver River/BBC 3) and has written and created Utopia (Kudos) for Channel Four.