Series: NHB Modern Plays

Imprint: Nick Hern Books

Published in volume Making Noise Quietly: three short plays

Tags:

Modern drama (post-1945)

First Staged:
Bush Theatre, London, 1986

Making Noise Quietly (short play)

By Robert Holman

Published in volume Making Noise Quietly: three short plays

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The third in Robert Holman's acclaimed trilogy of short plays, also called Making Noise Quietly.

In 1986, in the Black Forest, a German businesswoman takes into her home a fugitive British private and his disturbed stepson.

Making Noise Quietly (the trilogy) was first performed at the Bush Theatre, London, in June 1986.

Press Quotes

'Holman's instinct for truth, and an unaffected ability to spot what's poignant in it, is what one remembers: that, and a paradoxical impression of spare richness, astringent abundance...'

The Times

Series: NHB Modern Plays

Imprint: Nick Hern Books

Published in volume Making Noise Quietly: three short plays

Tags:

Modern drama (post-1945)

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