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Cherry Blossom (NHB Modern Plays) - cover

Cherry Blossom (NHB Modern Plays)

Catherine Grosvenor

Publisher: Nick Hern Books

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Summary

A play about the myths, ideas and realities of migration and identity in the twenty-first century.
Grazyna Antkiewicz lived.
Robert Dziekanski died.
Two people from Poland. One real, one imagined. What happened - or might have happened - between there and here? The distance from living the dream to waking up in a shared room in Scotland with mushrooms growing out of the carpet. From desperately missing your child to falling in love with a foreigner.
Cherry Blossom is a play by Catherine Grosvenor in collaboration with Lorne Campbell, Mark Grimmer and Leo Warner. It was first performed at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, in 2008.
'Dazzling and heartfelt' - Herald, Scotland
'A brilliant piece of work' - Edinburgh Evening News
Available since: 03/28/2020.
Print length: 128 pages.

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