next swan down the river might be black
From acclaimed playwright Sean Burn Time Out Play of the Year 2004, Peggy Ramsay Foundation Award 2006, Dadafest.We follow the shifting alliances of three young women on a psychiatric ward over one momentous week. Cerys, nineteen, black and depressive, Kay, twenty-six, white and bipolar, and Zee, a Pakistani-British student nurse and former service user, are all fighting a faceless institution in their own way. Their happiness, health and friendships are at stake as they struggle to find creative paths through life. The play examines diversity, friendships, sexualities and power at a time of rising uncertainties. This hard-hitting play celebrates the diversity of our society in which one in four experience mental ill-health.
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next swan down the river might be black
From acclaimed playwright Sean Burn Time Out Play of the Year 2004, Peggy Ramsay Foundation Award 2006, Dadafest.We follow the shifting alliances of three young women on a psychiatric ward over one momentous week. Cerys, nineteen, black and depressive, Kay, twenty-six, white and bipolar, and Zee, a Pakistani-British student nurse and former service user, are all fighting a faceless institution in their own way. Their happiness, health and friendships are at stake as they struggle to find creative paths through life. The play examines diversity, friendships, sexualities and power at a time of rising uncertainties. This hard-hitting play celebrates the diversity of our society in which one in four experience mental ill-health.
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next swan down the river might be black

next swan down the river might be black

by Sean Burn
next swan down the river might be black

next swan down the river might be black

by Sean Burn

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From acclaimed playwright Sean Burn Time Out Play of the Year 2004, Peggy Ramsay Foundation Award 2006, Dadafest.We follow the shifting alliances of three young women on a psychiatric ward over one momentous week. Cerys, nineteen, black and depressive, Kay, twenty-six, white and bipolar, and Zee, a Pakistani-British student nurse and former service user, are all fighting a faceless institution in their own way. Their happiness, health and friendships are at stake as they struggle to find creative paths through life. The play examines diversity, friendships, sexualities and power at a time of rising uncertainties. This hard-hitting play celebrates the diversity of our society in which one in four experience mental ill-health.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781906582357
Publisher: Aurora Metro Books
Publication date: 11/20/2012
Pages: 53
Product dimensions: 5.00(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Sean Burn’s plays have been staged by a number of companies across Europe and in the UK. His thirty short films have received screenings worldwide, as well as at Tate Modern and National Film Theatre Studios, London. His latest solo show, Bastilles Englan, has toured internationally.
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