Black Crows

by Linda Brogan

A young black boy dances the shuffle better than anyone but that isn't going to fill his belly. Teenager Hazel gives him what he wants. Older woman Leonora gives him what he needs. His mum Queenie is saving up to go to Jamaica and won't give him anything more than a catering tin of beans. The fight is on... Black Crows is a powerful story of three women and their love for one man. Linda Brogan's new play creates a dark and vivid world of love, jealousy and hunger in 1970s Manchester.

74 pages, Paperback

Published March 14, 2007

About the author

Linda Brogan
Represented by Nick Quinn@The Agency

2011: Scented White Jasmine
Not yet produced
Long-listed for Bruntwood Prize
Long-listed for Alfred Fagon Award

2010: Speechless
Co-written with Polly Teale
Produced by Shared Experience at The Traverse
Published by Nick Hern
Nominated for Amnesty International Freedom of Speech Award
Awarded an Edinburgh Fringe First.

2007: Black Crows
Produced by Cleanbreak at the Arcola
Published by Oberon
Finalist in the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize
Short-listed for Alfred Fagon Award

2005: What's in the Cat
Produced by Contact Theatre
Transferred to Royal Court
Published by Methuen
Nominated for MEN Best New Play Award  

2005: God Can See Down Entries
The Wire, Radio 3

2004: Basil and Beattie
Produced at The Royal Exchange
Transferred to The Liverpool Everyman
Won North West Playwrights Twenty First Anniversary Commission

2001: writer in residence at Contact Theatre

2001: on attachment at National Theatre Studio

2001: The Well
Won the Lefeurve/Promis Prize at National Theatre Studio
Won The Alfred Fagon Award hosted by The Royal Court