stoning mary (NHB Modern Plays) - Softcover

"'debbie tucker green is one of the most assured and extraordinary new voices we've heard in a long while... Electrifying' Independent '60 minutes of thrillingly high-impact theatre. If tucker green can continue in this rich vein, her future looks assured' London Evening Standard 'There is a sly, controlled power in the writing... and now I cannot get it out of my head' Guardian"

New play from the winner of the 2004 Olivier Award for Most Promising Newcomer, published alongside the premiere at the Royal Court. A husband and wife row about a prescription. A mother and father row about their son, who has become a child soldier. Two sisters row about which one is superior to the other. It emerges that the younger sister, Mary, has killed the child soldier. She is to be stoned to death. Mysterious yet compelling, bewildering yet intoxicating, Stoning Mary is a mix of Caryl Churchill, Sarah Kane and Edward Bond - yet debbie tucker green has a voice all of her onw: one which mixes poetic rhythms with vernacular phrases, rap-song repetitions with complex psychology.