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Making Noise Quietly (short play)

  • Robert Holman
  • Short Play, Drama, 1980s
  • 1M, 1F
  • ISBN: 9781848422483

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

  • Short Play
  • Drama

  • Time Period: 1980s
  • Target Audience: Young Adult, Adult
  • Set Requirements: Exterior Set

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre
Published in volume Making Noise Quietly: three short plays

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.

REVIEWS:

"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

Premiere Production: Bush Theatre, London, 1986.
  • Casting: 1M, 1F
  • Casting Attributes: Good role(s) for female performers
  • Casting Notes: Plus 1 Boy (playing age 8)