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Ava and Tash are up on a cliff, looking out at the flocking birds – and at their future. On the cusp of adulthood and about to leave the care home they've shared, the two friends road-test their impending freedom and living in the outside world.

Ava must confront the mother she left behind. Tash will have to look for a new home. And both girls will go on living dangerously with the men who surround them.

Raw, delicate and bold, Katherine Chandler's play Bird is a story of growing up outside a family but inside the fiercest of friendships. It was the winner of a Judges' Award in the 2013 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting, and premiered at Sherman Cymru in 2016 before transferring to the Royal Exchange, Manchester.



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'The writing has a blasted beauty... like its teenage protagonists, [it is] a small, fragile thing with a fiercely beating heart'

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'Uncompromising in its fury… a play that refuses to look away'

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'A story that has to be told… [will] have you thinking hard and feeling deeply'

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Bird

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    A Paperback / softback by Katherine Chandler

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      Publisher Nick Hern Books
      Published 12 May 2016
      ISBN-13 9781848425651
      978-1848425651
      ISBN-10 1848425651
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Ava and Tash are up on a cliff, looking out at the flocking birds – and at their future. On the cusp of adulthood and about to leave the care home they've shared, the two friends road-test their impending freedom and living in the outside world.

      Ava must confront the mother she left behind. Tash will have to look for a new home. And both girls will go on living dangerously with the men who surround them.

      Raw, delicate and bold, Katherine Chandler's play Bird is a story of growing up outside a family but inside the fiercest of friendships. It was the winner of a Judges' Award in the 2013 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting, and premiered at Sherman Cymru in 2016 before transferring to the Royal Exchange, Manchester.



      Trade Review

      'The writing has a blasted beauty... like its teenage protagonists, [it is] a small, fragile thing with a fiercely beating heart'

      * Guardian *

      'Uncompromising in its fury… a play that refuses to look away'

      * The Stage *

      'A story that has to be told… [will] have you thinking hard and feeling deeply'

      * The Public Reviews *

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