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Decade (NHB Modern Plays)

Ten years after 9/11, twenty international writers respond to the defining event of our times.
Published here are their individual plays, which woven together formed the basis of Decade, an immersive theatrical production from Headlong theatre company, first staged at Commodity Quay, St. Katharine's Dock, London, in 2011.
The writers: Samuel Adamson, Mike Bartlett, Alecky Blythe, Adam Brace, Ben Ellis, Ella Hickson, Samuel D. Hunter, John Logan, Matthew Lopez, Mona Mansour, DC Moore, Abi Morgan, Rory Mullarkey, Janine Nabers, Lynn Nottage, Harrison David Rivers, Simon Schama, Christopher Shinn, Beth Steel, Alexandra Wood.
155 printed pages
Copyright owner
Bookwire
Original publication
2014
Publication year
2014
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  • Beth Elsbyhas quoted4 years ago
    My brain tells me there’s no danger.

    This plane’s full of water to put out the flames on the first tower, like a forest fire. So I just watch it, and watch it, and watch it; and then it comes over to fifteen degrees to my right, and the wings dip and it goes what I think – what my brain tells me – is behind the Towers; so I’m confused because I thought it was going to drop water on it; and then it doesn’t come from the side, so I’m like, where’s it gone? Because I’m on the west, so I can’t see anything, the Towers are hiding me from what’s going on; what I’m seeing from my living room, I
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