DNA

by Dennis Kelly, Clare Finburgh Delijani (Editor)

This new Student Edition of Dennis Kelly's popular play DNA contains introductory commentary and notes by Clare Finburgh Delijani, which gives an in-depth analysis of the play's context and themes. As well as the complete text of the play, this new Methuen Drama Student Edition · An introduction to the playwright and social context of the play· Discussion of the context, themes, characters and dramatic form· Overview of staging and performance history of the play· Bibliography of suggested primary and secondary materials for further study.Dennis Kelly's play DNA centres on friendship, morality and responsibility in odd circumstances. When a group of young friends are faced with a terrible accident, they deliberately make the wrong choices to cover it up and find themselves in an unusually binding friendship where no one will own up to what they've done.

105 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 20, 2021

About the author

THEATRE INCLUDES: Debris (Theatre503/BAC); Osama the Hero (Hampstead); After the End (Paines Plough/Traverse/The Bush/UK and international tour); Love and Money (Young Vic/Royal Exchange); Taking Care of Baby (Hampstead/Birmingham Rep); Orphans (Paines Plough/Traverse/Birmingham Rep/Soho). Plays for young people include: DNA (National Theatre) and Our Teacher is a Troll (National Theatre of Scotland). He also co-wrote the comedy series Pulling (BBC3) and wrote and created Utopia (Channel 4).

His plays have been performed in over thirty countries worldwide and translated into twenty languages.

Reviews

[Emma Bourne · Rating 3 out of 5]

Studied this in high school many years ago and wanted to revisit as a theatre graduate! Alright read, good plot twists and gives a director lots to work with due to minimal/no stage directions etc!