Please note: In order to keep Hive up to date and provide users with the best features, we are no longer able to fully support Internet Explorer. The site is still available to you, however some sections of the site may appear broken. We would encourage you to move to a more modern browser like Firefox, Edge or Chrome in order to experience the site fully.

Orca, Paperback / softback Book

Orca Paperback / softback

Part of the NHB Modern Plays series

Paperback / softback

Description

An incisive, unflinching insight into what makes a community tolerate the unthinkable. ‘One girl, against the happiness of the whole village.

Can you not see it has to be done?’Midsummer. The village must choose a new Daughter to sail with the fishing boats and bless the waters, keeping them safe from the roaming orcas for another year. Fan hopes with all her heart to be the one they choose.

But her older sister Maggie says she must never, never, go with the boats. Because something happened to Maggie out there. And no one will admit it. Matt Grinter's play Orca was the winner of the 2016 Papatango New Writing Prize in association with Southwark Playhouse, London, where it premiered in 2016.

Information

Other Formats

Save 14%

£11.99

£10.29

 
Free Home Delivery

on all orders

 
Pick up orders

from local bookshops

Information

Also in the NHB Modern Plays series  |  View all