Charged (NHB Modern Plays): Six plays about women, crime and justice

By Chloë Moss

The heartbreaking truth about the lives of women in the criminal justice system is exposed in these six plays by some of the most exciting and distinctive female voices in British theatre.
Commissioned and premiered by Clean Break, a theatre and education company working with women whose lives have been affected by the criminal justice system.

The collection includes:
Fatal Light by Chloë Moss
Taken by Winsome Pinnock
Dream Pill by Rebecca Prichard
Doris Day by E V Crowe
Dancing Bears by Sam Holcroft
That Almost Unnameable Lust by Rebecca Lenkiewicz
'a gripping vitality... It's striking how the overall tone is not stridently feminist, but quiet and matter-of-fact. Charged feels more urgent for it.' - Guardian
'unlocks the drama – and the pity – of tough justice.' - Time Out

• Language: English
• Publisher: Nick Hern Books
• Release date: Oct 6, 2014
• ISBN: 9781780013923

Chloë Moss

Chloë Moss is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter. Her plays include: Run Sister Run (Paines Plough, Soho Theatre and Sheffield Theatres, 2020); The Gatekeeper (Royal Exchange, Manchester, 2012); Fatal Light (part of Clean Break and Soho Theatre's Charged season, 2010); This Wide Night (Clean Break and Soho Theatre, 2008; winner of the 2009 Susan Smith Blackburn prize); The Way Home (Everyman, Liverpool, 2006); Christmas is Miles Away (Royal Exchange, Manchester, 2005; Bush Theatre, London, 2006) and How Love Is Spelt (Bush Theatre, London, 2004). She has also written extensively for television. Credits include Six Wives (BBC One), Dickensian (BBC One), New Tricks (BBC One), The Smoke (Sky1) and Prisoners' Wives (BBC One).

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