{"product_id":"9781839040252-rockets-and-blue-lights","title":"Rockets and Blue Lights","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Alfred Fagon Award-winning play that retells British history through the prism of the slave trade.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'I am the slave ship. Wrecked. Empty. I am a shark, livid with the desire for blood. I am the sea, boiling with fury.'\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn the set of a new film about Victorian artist J.M.W. Turner, young actress Lou is haunted by an unresolved history. Meanwhile, in 1840, Londoners Lucy and Thomas try to come to terms with the meaning of freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMoving between London past and present, Winsome Pinnock's astonishing play retells British history through the prism of the slave trade. Fusing fact with fiction, and the powerfully personal with the fiercely political, \u003cem\u003eRockets and Blue Lights\u003c\/em\u003e asks who owns our past – and who has the right to tell its stories?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWinner of the 2018 Alfred Fagon Award, the play opened at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, in 2020, directed by Miranda Cromwell. It transferred to the National Theatre, London, in 2021.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'\u003cem\u003eRockets and Blue Lights\u003c\/em\u003e places at its center one of the nineteenth century's most famous paintings: J. M. W. Turner's \"The Slave Ship\". Moving between several sets of characters and ranging from the 1800s to the present, this intricately plotted drama compels us to confront the horrors of our shared past. It does so with compassion and wit, never once compromising Pinnock's vision of theater as the communal creation of new, stranger, and perhaps truer histories'\u003c\/strong\u003e Windham-Campbell Prize committee, on awarding Winsome Pinnock a Windham-Campbell Prize for Drama in 2022\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56451593240950,"sku":"9781839040252","price":10.36,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_27042590.jpg?v=1760463125","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781839040252-rockets-and-blue-lights","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}