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    Orca (NHB Modern Plays)

    By Matt Grinter

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    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.

    Orca was the winner of the 2016 Papatango New Writing Prize in association with Southwark Playhouse, London, where it premiered in 2016.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNick Hern Books
    Release dateNov 3, 2016
    ISBN9781780018379
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    Matt Grinter

    Matt Grinter is a writer and director working in both theatre and film. He was the winner of the 2016 Papatango Prize for his debut play Orca (Southwark Playhouse, 2016). Short films include Small Talk, Jessie and The Party Photographer. He is the artistic director of Red Rope Theatre Company, which he formed in 2012 with actor-producer Rebecca Robson.

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      Yes child abuse is terrible, victims don't get believed, and authority figures in insular communities are the worst. But this feels to me like a cheap use of child abuse for dramatic effect. Very much a one note play.

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