Consent

Author(s): Nina Raine

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Why is Justice blind? Is she impartial? Or is she blinkered? Friends Ed and Tim take opposing briefs in a rape case. The key witness is a woman whose life seems a world away from theirs. At home, their own lives begin to unravel as every version of the truth is challenged.
Consent, Nina Raine's powerful, painful, funny play, sifts the evidence from every side and puts Justice herself in the dock.

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A thrilling revenge drama... powerfully written, and both entertaining and thought-provoking. --Arts Desk; Funny, pointed and complex... Raine's writing crackles with a sharp-tongued and witty energy. Every line is measured and well-balanced, offering a sure-footed and somewhat galling examination of people, with all their horrendous faults on show. --whatsonstage; A play of fierce moral intelligence... always lively and engrossing... Consent stimulates debate rather than stifles it. --Guardian; Intricately layered... besides its astute observation of the balancing acts involved in marriage, there's plenty of finely tuned comedy. There's also an eagerness to address universal concerns - justice, betrayal, revenge and forgiveness. Yet more than anything else Raine is interested in language, which lies at the heart of every legal case and proves so worryingly slippery. --Evening Standard

Nina Raine is a director and playwright. Her plays include Consent (National Theatre, 2017); Tiger Country (Hampstead Theatre, London, 2011); Tribes (Royal Court, London, 2010, and Barrow Street Theatre, New York; winner of the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award and Drama Desk Award) and Rabbit (Old Red Lion and West End, 2006; winner of the Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright).

General Fields

  • : 9781848426306
  • : Nick Hern Books
  • : Nick Hern Books
  • : 29 March 2017
  • : 198mm X 129mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Nina Raine
  • : Paperback
  • : 1708
  • : 822.92
  • : 96