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This first collection of plays by Charlotte Jones includes her multi-award winning Humble Boy (Susan Smith Blackburn Award 2001, the Critics'' Circle Best New Play Award 2002, and the People''s Choice Best New Play Award 2002).

''Charlotte Jones . . . one of our most accomplished and entertaining young playwrights.'' Financial Times

Airswimming
''The structure and writing - admirably clear and unsentimental - both trip the light fantastic too, effortlessly gliding from the desperately funny to the desperately sad.'' Guardian

In Flame
''Watching Charlotte Jones''s play, In Flame, is an experience of pleasure virtually unalloyed. It is funny, but with depth; painful, but with delicacy.'' Financial Times

''A play about life and death, love and lust, guilt and hope and dreams and the whole damn thing. It has some of the best writing I have come across recently: vigorous, poetic and lethally funny, probing

Airswimming Contemporary Classics Plays

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      Publisher Faber & Faber
      Published 16 September 2004
      ISBN-13 9780571225965
      978-0571225965
      ISBN-10 0571225969
      Also in:
      Poetry

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      This first collection of plays by Charlotte Jones includes her multi-award winning Humble Boy (Susan Smith Blackburn Award 2001, the Critics'' Circle Best New Play Award 2002, and the People''s Choice Best New Play Award 2002).

      ''Charlotte Jones . . . one of our most accomplished and entertaining young playwrights.'' Financial Times

      Airswimming
      ''The structure and writing - admirably clear and unsentimental - both trip the light fantastic too, effortlessly gliding from the desperately funny to the desperately sad.'' Guardian

      In Flame
      ''Watching Charlotte Jones''s play, In Flame, is an experience of pleasure virtually unalloyed. It is funny, but with depth; painful, but with delicacy.'' Financial Times

      ''A play about life and death, love and lust, guilt and hope and dreams and the whole damn thing. It has some of the best writing I have come across recently: vigorous, poetic and lethally funny, probing

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