joey

by Sean Burn

Overview

1981 & a hard right government make savage cuts as party members wear hang nelson mandela badges. poverty, racist attacks, hunger strikes, terrorism & a royal wedding ... & playground chants ov spaz change to joey because joey deacon who lived with cerebral palsy appears on blue peter. friend who played stiff little fingers loud, wore dm's with red laces & fought to learn cookery saw the future coming, knew they were going to get called joey so got in first by declaring their name wz joey from now on, a still breath-taking reclamation. ultimately joey is a high octane monologue about multiple possibilities for survival, about rewriting futures - its not too late.

Embarking on a preview tour in June 2019, the play will be performed in english and British Sign Language at Queens Hall Hexham, Pulse Festival - Ipswich, ARC Stockton and Northern Stage Newcastle upon Tyne.

The project is supported by ACE, Northern Stage, Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation, Regional Theatre Young Director Scheme, Live Theatre and PULSE.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781912430376
Publisher:	Aurora Metro Books
Publication date:	06/12/2019
Pages:	56
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.75(h) x (d)

About the Author

Sean Burn is a Jessie Kesson literary fellow – Moniack Mhor, Scotland’s writing centre 2016. Part of Graeae’s first year of ‘Write to play’ scheme developing disabled / deaf writers, including a placement at the Royal Court Theatre and mentoring from Selma Dimitrijevic. Third full-length

collection of poetry – is that a bruise or a tattoo now available. Previous full-length plays include cutter (Half Moon Theatre [Time Out’s Play of the Year for Young People]), ghost-tag (Edinburgh Fringe), sweet (CTC), taking the blood of butterflies (Oval House Theatre), voices (Pegasus Youth Theatre), & next swan down the river might be black (gobscure national tour, published by Aurora Metro). Last full-length play collector of tears toured nationally by gobscure, was north-east play of the year (British Theatre Guide), and was published by Aurora Metro.

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Editorial Reviews

"It’s an epic, rebellious rollercoaster of a story that takes us out on the town squealing John Peel banshee, howling under every star." – Disability Arts Online

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