Winsome Pinnock
Rockets and Blue Lights: National Theatre edition
Rockets and Blue Lights: National Theatre edition
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Rockets and Blue Lights is a play by Winsome Pinnock that retells British history through the prism of the slave trade, focusing on one of the nineteenth century's most famous paintings, J. M. W. Turner's The Slave Ship. It won the 2018 Alfred Fagon Award and opened at the Royal Exchange Theatre in 2020 before transferring to the National Theatre in 2021. The play explores the horrors of our shared past with compassion and wit, challenging the audience to confront their own history.
\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 80 pages
\n Publication date: 26 August 2021
\n Publisher: Nick Hern Books
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On the set of a new film about Victorian artist J.M.W. Turner, young actress Lou is haunted by an unresolved history. Meanwhile, in 1840, Londoners Lucy and Thomas try to come to terms with the meaning of freedom.
Moving between London past and present, Winsome Pinnock's astonishing play retells British history through the prism of the slave trade. Fusing fact with fiction, and the powerfully personal with the fiercely political, Rockets and Blue Lights asks who owns our past – and who has the right to tell its stories?
Winner of the 2018 Alfred Fagon Award, the play opened at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, in 2020, directed by Miranda Cromwell. It transferred to the National Theatre, London, in 2021.
Rockets and Blue Lights places at its center one of the nineteenth century's most famous paintings: J. M. W. Turner's The Slave Ship. Moving between several sets of characters and ranging from the 1800s to the present, this intricately plotted drama compels us to confront the horrors of our shared past. It does so with compassion and wit, never once compromising Pinnock's vision of theater as the communal creation of new, stranger, and perhaps truer histories.
Windham-Campbell Prize committee, on awarding Winsome Pinnock a Windham-Campbell Prize for Drama in 2022.
\n Weight: 102g\n
Dimension: 129 x 198 x 18 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781839040252\n
Edition number: edition\n
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