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Land of Our Fathers
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Land of Our Fathers Paperback - 2013

by Chris Urch


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""I can't believe we're arguing over a Blue Riband""
""I can't believe we're stuck down a mine.""""Yet here we are""

3rd May 1979, South Wales. Thatcher is counting her votes, Sid Vicious is spinning in his grave, and six Welsh miners are trapped down a coal mine. Within two weeks everything these men believe in and everything they know will have changed. A darkly comic drama looking at the dramatic two weeks in which a group of Welsh miners are trapped underground.

Chris Urch's debut full-length play is packed full of blistering comedy and summons a generation of lost voices.

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  • Title Land of Our Fathers
  • Author Chris Urch
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Pages 136
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Methuen Publishing, London
  • Date 2013
  • ISBN 9781472523365 / 1472523369
  • Weight 0.25 lbs (0.11 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.7 x 5.1 x 0.4 in (19.56 x 12.95 x 1.02 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2013464420
  • Dewey Decimal Code 822.92

About the author

Chris Urch trained as an actor at Drama Centre. In 2011 he was longlisted for the Bruntwood Prize. In February 2012 he was selected from over 800 submissions as one of the 503Five, an 18-month playwriting residency with Theatre503. Since then, he has graduated from the Royal Court's Young Writers Programme. He has also participated in the Old Vic's 24-hour plays (2012) as one of six writers selected, and in 2011 Theatre503 staged "Married to the Game," "A Girl Like You" and "Vote of No Confidence." Other writing credits include "You Get Me?" (Bush) and "G.L.O.R.Y "(Canal Cafe Theatre). Earlier this year, Chris's play "Vote of No Confidence" was the first to be hand-picked by Howard Brenton to launch The Playwright Presents, a new initiative at Theatre503 in which established playwrights help launch the career of a promising new writer. "Land of our Fathers" is Chris Urch's debut full-length play."

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Land of Our Fathers
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Land of Our Fathers

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London: Bloomsbury, 2013. 1st Edition. . Paperback. Very Good. Paperback, 118pp. Programme and script from inaugural production of play set in South Wales coal mine, 1979.
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