What is the Custom of Your Grief?

A short play by Timberlake Wertenbaker about an English schoolgirl who is befriended online by an Afghan girl after her brother is killed while on active duty in Afghanistan. What is the Custom of Your Grief? was first performed at the Octagon Theatre, Bolton, in March 2015, as part of the 2015 Women Centre Stage Festival. The play is also available in Women Centre Stage, a collection of eight short plays selected by Sue Parrish, Artistic Director of Sphinx Theatre. All the plays included in this volume offer a wide variety of rewarding roles for women, and are perfect for schools, youth groups and theatre companies to perform. Other writers included in the collection include Winsome Pinnock, Georgia Christou and April De Angelis.

© 2016 Nick Hern Books (Ebook): 9781788500654

Release date

Ebook: 7 June 2016