The Other Place - (Modern Plays) by Alexander Zeldin (Paperback)

About the Book

Alexander Zeldin's new drama, after Antigone, takes a contemporary look at the guilt, grief and greed that battle it out as a family's competing dreams define their future

Book Synopsis

No what I think is there are people who are suffering and you can't go through your life as if they aren't there and you don't help them? If everyone did that what kind of world would that be?

Two sisters reunite on the anniversary of the death of their father. Their uncle has remodelled their family home, in an attempt at a fresh start. But one sister's sudden reappearance threatens to shatter this fragile idyll as she demand justice for the pain she carries.

Amid the debris and the new extension, guilt, grief and greed battle it out in the family's competing dreams of their future. When we are faced with the suffering of others, even those closest to us, can we look away?

This edition was published to coincide with the world premiere at London's National Theatre in October

About the Author

Alexander Zeldin is a writer, director and the founder of A Zeldin Company (AZC). Zeldin has made work in South Korea, the Middle East, Russia and at the Naples Festival, before developing projects as a teacher at East 15, and working as an assistant director to Peter Brook and Marie-Hélène Estienne. For the National Theatre: LOVE, Faith, Hope and Charity and The Confessions. Other theatre includes: Beyond Caring (transferred to the National's Temporary Theatre) at The Yard, a German version directed by Zeldin was produced in 2022, and is currently in repertoire at the Schaubühne, Berlin; and Une Mort dans la Famille at Odéon-Theâtre de l'Europe and on European tour.