Bøger af Dawn King

Three year old Alice's life is happy, almost perfect.But a mysterious stranger changes all that and threatens everything she loves.Can she keep her life, and her sanity, together long enough to make it through?

The near future. The climate emergency is gathering pace, and our generation is being judged.The jurors are children. But are they delivering justice - or just taking revenge?Dawn King's searing play The Trials was first performed at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus in January 2022, and was a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. It received its British premiere at the Donmar Warehouse, London, in August 2022, directed by Natalie Abrahami.The Trials offers an exciting opportunity for theatre companies to address the climate emergency and intergenerational conflict, as the jury of 12 to 17-year-olds hold the stage alongside three adult defendants.

A smart and provocative thriller about spies, double agents, and the opaqueness of the human soul.

A gripping and unsettling parable, Foxfinder is a darkly comic exploration of belief, desire and responsibility, set in a world both strange and familiar. William Bloor, a 'foxfinder', arrives at Sam and Judith Covey's farm to investigate a suspected contamination. He is driven by his education and beliefs to unearth and destroy an animal that threatens man's civilisation, and to remain free from its influence himself. As his investigations proceed, the events that follow change the course of all their lives - for ever. Winner of the 2011 Papatango New Writing Competition. 'Dawn King's play shines out like a beacon... the most compelling new work I have seen this year' Guardian