Hightide: The Plays [Paperback]

Includes the playsYou Were After Poetry, Lyre, Ned & SharonandWeightless

The four plays in this volume formed the centrepiece of the inaugural HighTide Festival in Halesworth, Suffolk, in 2007. Developing plays from the first draft to first performance, HighTide is the first new-writing theatre festival to focus on exclusively on young artists. The volume has a preface by Bill Nighy.You Were After Poetryby Steven Bloomer A fast-paced and witty relationship comedy showing a couple's break-up and its after-effects.Lyreby Megan Walsh A harp takes centre stage in this beautiful tale of an uncomfortably close brother and sister.Ned & Sharonby Sam Holcroft A story of love and tenderness about a troubled teenager in a care home.Weightlessby Sarah Cuddon An exquisitely imagined account of the first female British astronaut's selection and journey into space.