
Across Oka
by Robert Holman
Title:
Across Oka
Author:
Robert Holman
Series (if any):
Methuen Student Editions
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
128 pages, halftones
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing plc
ISBN-13:
9780413683205
EAN:
9780413683205
Classifications:
Plays, playscripts
Weight (g):
320
Dimensions (mm):
130 x 198 x 15
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
"Robert Holman is the quiet man among modern British dramatists. But his new play...is an outstanding work that sings with truth" (Michael Billington, Guardian)Eileen and her grandson Matty, 16, travel to Russia to stay with scientist Pavel and his son Nikolai, 14, on the Oka reserve where they are to take part in an experiment to save the Siberian Crane from extinction. When the two boys, Matty and Nikolai are given the responsibility of travelling into the wilds, the clash of their personalities, education and experience provokes in Matty an appalling destructiveness.Across Oka was premiered at The Other Place (RSC) in 1988."Robert Holman's Across Oka is about metamorphosis and manipulation in the lives of passionate, gentle people in north Yorkshire and eastern Russia, the first opent to all experience, the second constrained by the discipline of an enclosing state...The new play is alive with theatrical confrontation and generosity of spirit." (Michael Ratcliffe, Observer)











