Holding Fire
- Full Length Play, Drama, 19th Century
- 13M, 5F
- ISBN: 9781854599988
A rollicking tale of adventure set in early Victorian England, ranging from East End squalor to the Northern mills, and packing in an almost Dickensian gallery of characters.
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Description
- Full Length Play
- Drama
- Time Period: 19th Century
- Target Audience: Adult
- Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings
- Performance Group:
- Community Theatre
A rollicking tale of adventure set in early Victorian England, ranging from East End squalor to the Northern mills, and packing in an almost Dickensian gallery of characters.
England 1837: a country in a state of turmoil. A young girl is propelled on a journey from the London slums to the servants' quarters of a great house, and from first love to murder.
Jack Shepherd's play Holding Fire is a picaresque tale of tavern assemblies and prize fights, gin-palace communists and bullying do-gooders, industrialists and whores, bringing to life the violent times of early Victorian England.
REVIEWS:
"Passionate and fiercely relevant."
The Times
"You want epic sweep, you got it. Jack Shepherd's rambling and rather wonderful history of the Victorian Chartist movement confirms the Globe as a venue for new writing of special, grand-scale quality."
Evening Standard
Premiere Production:
Shakespeare's Globe, London, 2007.
Characters
- Casting: 13M, 5F
- Casting Attributes: Reduced casting (Doubling Possible)
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