Armadillo
By (Author) Sarah Kosar
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Methuen Drama
30th May 2019
United Kingdom
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Literary studies: plays and playwrights
812.6
Paperback
96
Width 129mm, Height 198mm
86g
Bullets are not sexy. They are not sexy.
Armadillo little armoured one. [Spanish]
A teenage girl disappears from a small town in America where fifteen years earlier, another teenage girl was kidnapped. Now a woman, she watches the news. She reaches for her gun. She holds it close.
Sarah Kosar's new play is about the dangerous ways we make ourselves feel safe.
[Kosar] has a distinctive, surrealist style of writing that is unafraid * Exeunt Magazine *
Kosar is a promising writer, brave enough to challenge audiences to face up to unpalatable truths * Reviews Hub *
Sarah Kosar is an American playwright living in London. She has been a part of The Royal Court Young Writers Programme, Studio Invitation Group and Summer Group, as well as The Soho Young Writers Lab, Lyric Young Writers Progamme, and an Associate Writer with the Hampstead Theatre. Sarah's full length play Hot Dog was produced at The Last Refuge in 2013, and received its US Premiere in Florida in May 2014. Hot Dog has been published by Playdead Press, and also introduced to Pennsylvania State University's syllabus for Advanced Playwriting and the senior level Women in Theatre course. Sarah has a BA in Theatre, and a BA in Film from Pennsylvania State University and a MA in Writing for Stage and Broadcast Media from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.