OXFORD PLAYSCRIPTS: MY SWORDHAND IS SINGING by Adrian Flynn ( 9780198307808 )

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OXFORD PLAYSCRIPTS: MY SWORDHAND IS SINGING

By:

Adrian Flynn

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0198307802

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9780198307808

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OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

16 October, 2014

Series:

Oxford playscripts

Pages:

136

Description:

Peter and his father Tomas live and chop wood in the forests that surround the village of Chust. When their solitary existence is shattered by a band of gypsies, Peter must face up to his father's troubled past and learn the secrets hidden inside the wooden box they have carried with them for so long.

Synopsis:

In the bitter cold of an unrelenting winter Tomas and his son, Peter, arrive in Chust and despite the inhospitability of the villagers settle there as woodcutters. Tomas digs a channel of fast-flowing waters around their hut so they have their own little island kingdom. Peter doesn't understand why his father has done this, nor why his father carries a long battered box everywhere they go, and why he is forbidden to know its contents. But when a band of gypsies comes to the village Peter's drab existence is turned upside down. He is infatuated by the beautiful gypsy princess, Sofia, intoxicated by their love of life and drawn into their deadly quest. For Chust is a dying community - where the dead come back to wreak revenge on the living. Amidst the terrifying events that follow, Peter is stunned to see his father change from a disillusioned man to the warrior hero he once was.

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