Ordinary Decent Criminal - NHB Modern Plays

Ed Edwards

Paperback (31 Jul 2025)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Set in the years following the Strangeways Prison Riot, meet recovering addict Frankie as he enters the brave new world of a liberal prison experiment.

None of Frankie's fellow convicts are what they seem. In the most unexpected of places, he discovers that the revolution is not dead. It's just sleeping.

Ed Edwards' play Ordinary Decent Criminal is a tale of freedom, revolution and messy love. It is premiered in 2025 by Paines Plough, Live Theatre, Theatre Royal Plymouth and Ellie Keel Productions in association with Synergy Theatre Project, in a touring production starring Mark Thomas as Frankie.

About the Publisher

Nick Hern Books

Nick Hern Books is the UK's leading specialist performing arts publisher with over 1,000 plays and theatre books in our catalogue. Our list of plays includes work by many of the UK's preeminent playwrights, as well as some of the most exciting emerging writers. We work with major theatres and theatre companies across the UK and in Ireland to publish new plays alongside their professional premieres, often in the form of a 'programme/text' that combines the functions of theatre programme and playtext. We also publish many classic plays and plays in translation, together with a wide range of authoritative theatre books, many of them written by well-known theatre practitioners.

Book information

ISBN:	9781839044823
Publisher:	Nick Hern Books
Imprint:	Nick Hern Books
Pub date:	31 Jul 2025
DEWEY:	822.92
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	80
Weight:	-1g
Height:	198mm
Width:	129mm