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In a Vulnerable Place (NHB Modern Plays) - cover

In a Vulnerable Place (NHB Modern Plays)

Steve Waters

Publisher: Nick Hern Books

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Summary

In a Vulnerable Place is a monologue documenting the playwright's journey from the Norfolk Broads to the steppes of Mongolia to explore, first hand, what is happening to the natural world and the human heart.
This play is taken from Steve Waters: Shorts, five short plays from acclaimed playwright Steve Waters, all of them deeply personal accounts of his attempts to make sense of twenty-first-century Britain and an ever-changing world.
Available since: 03/28/2017.
Print length: 36 pages.

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