born bad (NHB Modern Plays)

By debbie tucker green

A hard-hitting and original family drama.

Winner of the 2004 Olivier Award for Most Promising Newcomer

'the bits don't make the bulk and the bulk don't mek the whole and the all a your bits together don't make your versions true.'

A blood-related black family. A Dad, a Mum, a Daughter, two Sisters, a Brother. A family argument. A skeleton in the closet... born bad dives headlong into the powerful heart of this family, unleashing wit, ferocity and verbal dexterity on the way.

'debbie tucker green is one of the most assured and extraordinary new voices we've heard in a long while. Electrifying' - Independent on Sunday

'60 minutes of thrillingly high-impact theatre. If tucker green can continue in this rich vein, her future looks assured' - Evening Standard

• Language: English
• Publisher: Nick Hern Books
• Release date: Jan 26, 2015
• ISBN: 9781780017129

debbie tucker green

debbie tucker green is a playwright, screenwriter and director. Her plays include: a profoundly affectionate, passionate devotion to someone (-noun) (Royal Court Theatre, 2017); hang (Royal Court, 2015); nut (National Theatre, 2013); truth and reconciliation (Royal Court, 2011); random (Royal Court, 2008); generations (Young Vic, 2007); stoning mary (Royal Court, 2005); trade (RSC, 2005); born bad (Hampstead Theatre, 2003; Olivier Award for Most Promising Newcomer); and dirty butterfly (Soho Theatre, 2003). She wrote and directed the feature film, Second Coming (BFI/Film 4, 2014; International Film Festival Rotterdam Big Screen Award) and adapted her play random into a TV film for Channel 4, which won the 2012 BAFTA for Best Single Drama and the Black International Film/MVSA Award for Best UK Film. Her work for radio includes: lament (Radio Academy Arias Gold Award), gone, random, handprint and freefall. She was awarded the 2015 Windham Campbell Prize for Drama.