random

By debbie tucker green

An urgent play about the senseless killing of a black schoolboy, from one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary British playwriting. Premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in 2008.
Death never used to be for the young.
You get up.
You go bout your business.
You expect to come back.
random was adapted for television in 2011, winning a BAFTA for Best Single Drama.
'debbie tucker green's writing is so raw and immediate that it can feel as if she's hacking into your heart with a rusty tin opener.' Time Out

• Language: English
• Publisher: Nick Hern Books
• Release date: Apr 11, 2013
• ISBN: 9781780010960

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.

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