Imprint:
London : Methuen Drama : [distributor] Macmillan Distribution (MDL) : [distributor] United Book Distributors : [distributor] United Book Distributors : [distributor] Jonathan Ball Publishers SA, 1998.
Collation:
80 p. ; 20x13 cm.
Summary:
Written in 1938 and based on an actual newspaper story, the play follows the events of a prison scandal which shocked America, when convicts leading a hunger strike were locked in a steam-heated cell and roasted to death. Not About Nightingales, never before produced or published, is an early play by the 27-year-old Tom Williams and the first play to carry his signature pen-name 'Tennessee'. It was rescued from Williams' archive by the actress Vanessa Redgrave Written in 1938 and based on an actual newspaper story, the play follows the events of a prison scandal which shocked America when convicts leading a hunger strike were locked in a steam-heated cell and roasted to death. Williams later said: 'I have never written anything since that could compete with its violence and horror.'.
ISBN:
9780413722805 (pbk)
0413722805 (pbk)
Local Class:
Single copy
NCN (PLAYSET - P)
Bookmark Link:
https://hampshire.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/KIDS/BIBENQ?BRN=2630500
