Hela
By (Author) Mari Izzard
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Oberon Books Ltd
5th November 2019
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
Plays, playscripts
Theatre studies
Literary studies: plays and playwrights
Gender studies: women and girls
822.92
Short-listed for The Stage Debut Award for Best Writer 2020 (UK)
Paperback
184
Width 198mm, Height 128mm, Spine 14mm
180g
"Dos dim hawl da ti adael, Dos dim hawl da ti anghofio pwy wyt ti" "You dont get to leave, You dont get to forget who you really are" Erin, a young mother, has lost her son but no one will listen. Driven and desperate, she must find him by any means necessary. When everything including justice is determined by an algorithm, can data truly be trusted Can deep-seated pain ever be defused And how far will Erin be willing to go to see justice happen Mari Izzard's debut bilingual play Hela is a dark and unsettling tale of dirty family secrets and vigilante justice.
Mari Izzard grew up in Bridgend, South Wales and trained as an actor at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. She was one of Theatr Clwyd and Paines Ploughs Writers in Residency as part of their TYFU/GROW scheme in 2017 and was the inaugural winner of the Violet Burns Playwriting Award. Other writing credits include: HRH Prince of Wales 70th Birthday Celebration, The Goons Show Adaptation for Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, Grand for Split Milk Theatre.