This second volume of Ridleys stage plays confirms him as one of themost imaginative, daring and unique voices currently working intheatre. All four plays collected here resonant with Ridleys trademarkthemes East London, storytelling, moments of shocking violence,memories of the past, fantastical monologues, and that strange mix ofthe barbaric and the beautiful he has made all his own.Vincent River ... a grieving mother and a traumatized teenagermeet as adversaries, rough each other up and eventually bond over abarbaric act of cruelty...Ridley asksquestions, lots of them, about how people respond to the loss ofinnocence in their lives, how they hold onto their sanity in the faceof savagery and how they fight to keep the bonds of humanity intact ina mad, mad world. VarietyMercury Fur ...depicts a scary, postapocalyptic London where, intheir struggle to survive, a group of youths are reduced to organisingparties that cater for the most perverted tastes. IndependentLeaves of Glass There is a different kind of murder going on herethe murder of truth that goes on in all families to a lesser or greaterdegree. As with nations, a familys history is written by the victors. GuardianPiranha Heights The extravagance of Ridleys dark vision suggests adangerously confused society in which individuals seize on randomgobbets of semidigested information and use them to construct theirown personal narrative. TheTimes

Binding: Paperback;432 pages; Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC; Classification: DD; Weight: 584 g; Dimensions: 195 x 129 x 27

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