The Error of Their Ways
By (Author) Torben Betts
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Oberon Books Ltd
15th August 2007
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
822.92
Paperback
96
Width 130mm, Height 210mm
From a playwright rated by Alan Ayckbourn and Howard Barker to be the most exciting new voice in British theatre comes a shattering re-imagining of life as we live it now, set in the context of a bloody revolution. Witness to a brutal political assassination, we are introduced to a society fractured by a lack of belief in anything meaningful, in which everyone has something to protest against. This skewed world spins giddily between the surreal, the mundane and a ghastly graphic reality. Powerful poetic language, raw emotion, dark humour and big uncomfortable ideas build a fast moving story of quite shattering impact (The Guardian). The Error of Their Ways received its world premiere at the HERE Center, NYC in August 2007.
Torben Betts read English Literature & English Language at the University of Liverpool before training and working as an actor. Plays include: Spurning Comfort , A Listening Heaven; Incarcerator; Mummies and Daddies (shortlisted for 2000 Verity Bargate Award); Five Visions of the Faithful Clockwatching, The Last Days of Desire; The Biggleswades and The Lunatic Queen. He is the winner of the Scottish Play of the Year Award for 2007.