Plays 1: Airswimming / In Flame / Martha / Josie and the Chinese Elvis / Humble Boy

by Charlotte Jones

This first collection of plays by Charlotte Jones includes her multi-award winning Humble Boy (Susan Smith Blackburn Award 2001, the Critics' Circle Best New Play Award 2002, and the People's Choice Best New Play Award 2002).

400 pages, Paperback

Published September 16, 2004

About the author

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Charlotte Jones is a British actress and playwright.
Her first play Airswimming debuted in 1997 at the Battersea Arts Centre in London. Her other plays include In Flame, The Dark, The Lightning Play, and Humble Boy. Charlotte Jones wrote the book to the 2004-2006 West End musical, The Woman in White, in collaboration with the David Zippel and Andrew Lloyd Webber.

Reviews

[Erin Buchanan]

Favorite playwright...I want to be Charlotte Jones when I grow up

[Anna Fitzgerald · Rating 5 out of 5]

My new favorite author. She is able to capture life's more complex circumstances that women can experience and balances the importance of both male and female roles.