Sea and Land and Sky
β Scribed by Abigail Docherty
- Book ID
- 111287044
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 30 KB
- Series
- Modern Plays
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781408140574
- ASIN
- B006Z68RQW
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β¦ Synopsis
Set in 1916, three young women from the Scottish Women's Hospital are sent to the Russian front to support the war effort. Ailsa is working class and determined to make an impression on her superiors, Millicent is a self-confessed hedonist and Lily is searching for her lost husband. Unprepared for what they witness, each must find a way of coping as they fight to survive an experience that will change them forever.
Poetic, visionary and startlingly written, Abigail Docherty's historical play is based on actual diaries of young Scottish nurses who experienced the Great War. Often darkly funny and raw in its emotions, Sea and Land and Sky is a gripping and sensual tale of youth, war, memory - and the power of love.
Sea and Land and Sky is boldly inventive, blackly comic, and starkly savage.
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