{"product_id":"torn-9781474292634","title":"Torn","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhere you standing? I say where you standing on this? You think it happened or you don't think it happened?\u003c\/i\u003eGenerations of secrets have broken the Brook family.Siblings split-up, traded-off, treated differently.Angel, the youngest, has called a family meeting to sift through the  wreckage. And she's not leaving until they've confronted the truth  about how and why her family failed her.\u003ci\u003eTorn \u003c\/i\u003eby British playwright and actor Nathaniel Martello-White was published to coincide with its world premiere at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs on 7 September 2016.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe play has many glories, not least its searing rhetoric, its  unflinching honesty and its moments of sublime physical comedy ... This  is not a parable of the acting profession or of some crushed racial  minority. It's a story of everyday ambition, of life in the urban rat  race, of perseverance triumphing over adversity. And it contains perhaps  the finest, and funniest, speech about slavery I've heard. * Spectator on 'Blackta' *\u003cbr\u003eNathaniel Martello-White’s debut play is concerned with more than just  the various hurdles faced by black actors; it also encompasses broader  themes of race, identity and masculinity. The play rattles along, a  little bit like Beckett on amphetamines, presenting a frantic hamster  wheel world in which its characters - named for their skin tone: black,  brown, yellow - are forever being tested...The play has a lot to say and  for much of the time it does so with humour and verve * The Stage on 'Blackta' *","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019913789783,"sku":"9781474292634","price":13.93,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781474292634.jpg?v=1750781710","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/torn-9781474292634","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}