The Rolling Stone [Paperback]

One day you're you. The next you're  I can't even say the word.

Dembe and Sam have been seeing each other for a while. They should be wondering where this is going and when to introduce each other to their families. But they're gay and this is Uganda. The consequences of their relationship being discovered will be violent and explosive. Especially for Dembe, whose brother goes into the pulpit each week to denounce the evils of one man loving another.

A Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting winner in 2013,The Rolling Stonereceived its world premiere at the Royal Exchange, Manchester, on 21 April 2015.

Chris Urchtrained as an actor at Drama Centre. In 2011 he was longlisted for the Bruntwood Prize. In February 2012 he was selected from over 800 submissions as one of the 503Five, an 18-month playwriting residency with Theatre503. Since then, he has graduated from the Royal Court's Young Writers Programme. He has also participated in the Old Vic's 24-hour plays (2012) as one of six writers selected, and in 2011 Theatre503 stagedMarried to the Game,A Girl Like YouandVote of No Confidence. Other writing credits includeYou Get Me?(Bush) andG.L.O.R.Y(Canal Caf? Theatre). Chris Urch's playVote of No Confidencewas the first to be hand-picked by Howard Brenton to launch The Playwright Presents, an initiative at Theatre503 in which established playwrights help launch the career of a promising new writer.Land of our Fathersis Chris Urch's debut full-length play. His playThe Rolling Stonewon a Bruntwood Judges' Award in 2013.

There's a character everyone can relate to . . . there's a character everyone will recognise and fall in love with. . . . A survival play at its heart,Land of Our Fathersis packed full of blistering comedy and a generation of lost voices. Whatsonstage

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