Penhall Plays: 2: Blue/Orange; Dumb Show; Wild Turkey

Penhall's 1994 play Some Voices was described as 'the most thrilling playwriting debut in years' by the Sunday Times. He has consistently lived up to and exceeded that early promise as the plays in this second volume of his work testify. Characterised by a taut mood, a grappling with moral dilemmas, and tough, eloquent dialogue, punctuated by outrageously comic moments, the plays in this volume are:


Blue/Orange: An incendiary tale of race, madness and power set in a psychiatric hospital. 'Br...