Plays 1: Some Voices / Pale Horse / Love and Understanding / The Bullet

by Joe Penhall

Some Voices: 'The most thrilling playwriting debut in years. . . The writing is razor-sharp, sensitive, quietly eloquent, full of the touchingly drab poetry of lost lives' (Sunday Times); Pale Horse: 'His second Court play is as compelling and extraordinary as his first . . . as taut, tight and atmospheric as Macbeth' (Observer); Love and Understanding: 'This is one of the best plays I've seen, ever, at this powerhouse of new writing . . . tough, eloquent, bruising' (Sunday Times); The Bullet: 'A Death of a Salesman for Britain in the nineties, and it is typical of Penhall's grace as a writer that it consciously echoes Arthur Miller while also emerging as an entirely distinctive work' (Daily Telegraph)

Genres: Plays

355 pages, Paperback

First published November 5, 1998

Reviews

[Charlie Lee]

Another great contemporary playwright. If you like Pinter or Martin Mcdonagh, it's in a similar vein.