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Take Care (NHB Modern Plays)

✍ Scribed by Zoë Templeman-Young; Sam McLaughlin

Book ID: 110971191
Publisher: Nick Hern Books
Year: 2020
Tongue: en-GB
Weight: 40 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9781788503198

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Take Care by Zoë Templeman-Young and Sam McLaughlin follows the real-life story of Pam, a woman struggling to move her mother into a care home that's closer to her. An award-winning Edinburgh smash, it is an astonishing, tragic and uplifting verbatim play about the care system in the UK today.

This play is taken from Plays from VAULT 5 , an anthology, the fifth from Nick Hern Books, comprising of five of the best plays from VAULT Festival 2020, London's biggest and most exciting arts festival.

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