Counting Stars

by Atiha Sen Gupta

Overview

Woolwich. Club Paradise. Valentine’s Night. Nigerian nightclub toilet attendants Abiodun and Sophie brace themselves for the busiest night of the year. Tonight Abiodun and Sophie are also marking their one year anniversary together having met in Paradise: united in love, divided by a toilet wall.

But as the countdown to midnight and the end of their shift begins, bosses, exes and clubbers threaten to stall the anniversary plans of the young lovers. Will Abiodun and Sophie make it back in time for their very own Valentine’s celebration?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781786820358
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	10/10/2017
Series:	Oberon Modern Plays
Pages:	72
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.12(d)

About the Author

Atiha Sen Gupta has written short plays, long plays and everything in between since she was 13. Her first play Eternally Grateful was a terrible dilemma play about a couple (one secular, one Jehovah’s Witness, of course) whose daughter suddenly and conveniently needs a blood transfusion. It didn’t end well. Her first full-length play What Fatima Did was commissioned when Atiha was 17 and part of Hampstead Theatre’s drama youth group ‘Heat and Light’, and played on Hampstead Theatre’s main stage when she was 21. She was nominated for the John Whiting Award and the Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright. In 2012, Atiha won the prestigious ‘JugendStückePreis’ award for Fatima at an awards ceremony in Heidelberg. Atiha was part of the writing team on E4’s SKINS for three years. In 2014 her play State Red showed at the Hampstead Downstairs. Counting Stars premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe 2015 at the Assembly George Square which Amnesty International shortlisted for its Freedom of Expression Award. She is writer-in-residence for 2016-2017 at Theatre Royal Stratford East.

Editorial Reviews

This is the work of a writer with a future” —Michael Billington, The Guardian

“A powerful piece of new writing on themes of love and exploitation” —Paul Vale, The Stage

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