{"product_id":"9781408177129","title":"Eldridge Plays: 2: Incomplete and Random Acts of Kindness, Market Boy, The Knot of the Heart, The Stock Da'Wa","description":"This second collection of plays by David Eldridge showcases the development of one of the most impressive playwriting talents of recent years. His plays combine emotional impact with complexity, realistic characterisation with humour, and are among the most powerfully moving dramas of contemporary playwriting.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIncomplete and Random Acts of Kindness \u003c\/b\u003emoves between a dream story and real lives to tell an intricate, complex story of a young man dealing with the break up of his family and the legacy of race responsibility. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarket Boy\u003c\/b\u003e is a gloriously raucous rites-of-passage drama set in Romford Market in the 1980s. Bringing a market jungle to life with the decade's Thatcherite capitalist fervour, this spectacular, savage, and beautiful yarn is a tale looks at a boy's coming of age and loss of innocence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Knot of the Heart \u003c\/b\u003ehas themes of love, family and addiction, and explores the creeping onset of self-destruction beneath a veneer of respectability. Full of David Eldridge's trademark lyricism within everyday family life and interaction, this is a play where emotions are high and relationships are sensitively written. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Stock Da'wa\u003c\/b\u003e explodes the wafer thin bonhomie of a long-awaited reunion into a blackly funny maelstrom of pique and long repressed truth-telling - and with shocking consequences.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEldridge Plays 2\u003c\/i\u003e contains the definitive version of the four plays and an introduction by the author.","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47140797219056,"sku":"9781408177129","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781408177129_p0.jpg?v=1763718265","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781408177129","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}