More Light (Connections)

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2000
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More Light and the other 'ladies of the Emperor' have been immured with the recently deceased Chinese ruler. Used to a secure and luxurious existence, they are driven to extreme of human behaviour which test to the limit their mutual loyalty. More Light by Bryony Lavery was specially commissioned by the Royal National Theatre for the BT National Connections Scheme for young people.

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More Light and the other 'ladies of the Emperor' have been immured with the recently deceased Chinese ruler. Used to a secure and luxurious existence, they are driven to extreme of human behaviour which test to the limit their mutual loyalty. More Light by Bryony Lavery was specially commissioned by the Royal National Theatre for the BT National Connections Scheme for young people.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 96
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 20 Nov 2000
ISBN 10: 0571206913
ISBN 13: 9780571206919
Book Overview: More Light by Bryony Lavery involves a group of 'ladies of the Emperor'; immured with the recently deceased Chinese ruler, they are driven to extremes of human behaviour, which test their mutual loyalty to its very limit.

Author Bio

Bryony Lavery's plays include Her Aching Heart (Pink Paper Play of the Year 1992) and A Wedding Story (2000). Her play Frozen, commissioned by Birmingham Repertory Theatre, won the TMA Best Play Award, the Eileen Anderson Central Television Award, and was then produced on Broadway where it was nominated for 4 Tony awards. She also wrote Last Easter, produced in The Door, and created adaptations of Uncle Vanya and A Christmas Carol as an associate artist for The REP. Stockholm, with Frantic Assembly, won the Wolff-Whiting award for Best Play of 2008. Recent work includes Beautiful Burnout for the National Theatre of Scotland and Frantic Assembly, which received a Fringe First at Edinburgh; The Believers with Frantic Assembly at the Theatre Royal Plymouth and the Tricycle; Kursk with Sound and Fury at the Young Vic and Sydney Opera House; Cesario for the National Theatre; Thursday at the Adelaide Festival; Queen Coal at the Studio, Sheffield; and an adaptation of Tales of the City/ More Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin for BBC Radio 4. Forthcoming work includes stage adaptations of 101 Dalmatians for Chichester Festival Theatre; Brideshead Revisited for York Theatre Royal; and Picnic at Hanging Rock for ETT/Brink. Bryony Lavery is an honorary Doctor of Arts at De Montfort University and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.