An urgent play about the senseless killing of a black schoolboy, from one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary British playwriting.
'Death never used to be for the young.
You get up.
You go bout your business.
You expect to come back.'
debbie tucker green's play random was first performed at the Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Downstairs, London, in March 2008, directed by Sacha Wares and performed by Nadine Marshall.
A television adaptation for Channel 4, directed by debbie tucker green and starring Nadine Marshall alongside an expanded cast, was first broadcast in August 2011. It went on to win a BAFTA for Best Single Drama.
debbie tucker green is a playwright, screenwriter and director. Her plays include: ear for eye (Royal Court Theatre, 2018); a profoundly affectionate, passionate devotion to someone (-noun) (Royal Court Theatre, 2017); hang (Royal Court, 2015); nut (National Theatre, 2013); truth and reconciliation (Royal Court, 2011); random (Royal Court, 2008); generations (Young Vic, 2007); stoning mary (Royal Court, 2005); trade (RSC, 2005); born bad (Hampstead Theatre, 2003; Olivier Award for Most Promising Newcomer); and dirty butterfly (Soho Theatre, 2003). She wrote and directed the feature film, Second Coming (BFI/Film 4, 2014; International Film Festival Rotterdam Big Screen Award) and adapted her play random into a TV film for Channel 4, which won the 2012 BAFTA for Best Single Drama and the Black International Film/MVSA Award for Best UK Film. Her work for radio includes: lament (Radio Academy Arias Gold Award), gone, random, handprint and freefall. She was awarded the 2015 Windham Campbell Prize for Drama.
Title: Random (new edition)
Author: debbie tucker green
ISBN: 9781848421059
Binding:
Publisher: Nick Hern Books
Publication Date: 2008-03-13
Number of Pages: 64
Weight: 0.0817 kg
'Remarkable... gets right inside the characters, capturing the sudden devastation in their lives, the unbearable sense of loss... the writing seems to penetrate the very heart of grief... whisks the audience from laughter to comfortless sorrow in less than an hour'
* Telegraph *
'A poet's feel for rhythm, a keen ear for urban patois, and the knack of telling a story elliptically, with vivid flecks of detail'
* Independent *
'debbie tucker green's writing is so raw and immediate that it can feel as if she's hacking into your heart with a rusty tin opener'
* Time Out *
