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Moira Buffini Plays 1: Blavatsky's Tower, Gabriel, Silence, Loveplay

Moira Buffini Plays 1: Blavatsky's Tower, Gabriel, Silence, Loveplay

by Moira Buffini (Author)

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    Paperback 2006

    $17.38
Synopsis

Gabriel: 'A richly themed, enthralling new play.' The Times Silence (winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn award): 'Silence is a beaut. Buffini is deliciously skilled at crafting lines.' Financial Times Loveplay: 'Delightfully quirky, funny and touching. A hit if ever I saw one. Buffini has an appetite for history, and the most beguiling of dramatic voices.' Daily Telegraph Dinner: 'A cracking black comedy that has you laughing uproariously one moment and jumping with shock the next . . . Dinner offers a delicious feast of comedy at its most heartless and macabre.' Daily Telegraph Blavatsky's Tower: 'A refreshingly dizzying perspective on that cornerstone of dysfunction - the family.' Time Out 'A truly remarkable play. Buffini is a startingly original voice and an outstanding talent.' What's On

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 379
 Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 16 Mar 2006
ISBN 10: 0571230326
ISBN 13: 9780571230327

Media Reviews
Blavatsky's Tower 'A refreshingly dizzying perspective on that cornerstone of dysfunction - the family.' Time Out Gabriel 'A richly themed, enthralling new play.' The Times Silence (winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn award) 'Silence is a beaut. Buffini is deliciously skilled at crafting lines.' Financial Times Loveplay 'Delightfully quirky, funny and touching. A hit if ever I saw one. Buffini has an appetite for history, and the most beguiling of dramatic voices.' Daily Telegraph
Author Bio
Moira Buffini trained as an actor and taught drama in Holloway Prison. Her monologue Jordan, co-written with Anna Reynolds, won the Writers Guild Award for the Best Fringe play 1992 and a Time Out award for her performance. She produced and directed her second play, Blavatsky's Tower, on the London Fringe. Gabriel, written for the Soho Theatre in 1997, won LWT Plays On Stage Award and the Meyer Whitworth Award. Silence, winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, was commissioned by the National Theatre Studio and produced by Birmingham Rep and Plymouth Theatre Royal. In 2001, the RSC produced Loveplay. Dinner was produced at the National Theatre Loft in 2002 and nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Comedy, transferring to the West End the following year. She has written and directed three short plays; The Teacher, for the National Theatre's National Headlines series, The Games Room for the Focus Group at Soho Theatre and Doomsday Girl for the RSC. Her writing for film includes Melissa Malone for the BBC, Presence for Prospect / Film Four and the screenplay of Gabriel for Passion Pictures.