Currency Press
0
  • Books
    • New Releases
      • New Releases Currency Press
      • New Releases Nick Hern Books
    • Scripts
      • Children’s and Young Adult
      • Play Collections
      • Currency Press Plays
      • Nick Hern Books Plays
      • Screenplays
    • Professional Handbooks
      • Acting and audition
      • Activities and Games
      • Dance and Movement
      • Directing and Theatremaking
      • Shakespeare
      • Voice and performance skills
      • Writers and Writing
    • Performing arts general
      • Australian Screen Classics
      • Biography, History and Criticism
      • Theatre
      • Music
      • Education
    • Currency House Books
      • Platform Papers
      • General Titles
    • What’s On Stage
  • Authors
    • Currency Authors
    • Nick Hern Authors
  • Playwrights’ Festival
  • Online Resources
    • Catalogues/Price Lists
    • Cue the Chorus
    • Introductions
    • Not in Print Podcasts
    • Verbatim Theatre: interviews
    • Educators
      • Syllabus Text Lists
      • Teachers Notes / Study Guides
  • About Us
    • Contact us
    • Distributors and Booksellers
    • Performance Rights
    • Permissions
    • Submissions
    • History
    • Work with us
  • News
0
was successfully added to your cart.

Press enter to begin your search
Home Young adult 2nd May 1997

2nd May 1997

$25.99

ISBN: 9781848420809
Author: By Jack Thorne
Publication Date: 10/09/2009
Publisher: Nick Hern Books
Extent: 80pp.
Availability: Available

Related Titles

9781848424487: Jack Thorne Plays: One
Clear
SKU: BK1336 Categories: Diverse sexuality themes, Drama, Full-length, Nick Hern Books, Plays, Political / social themes, Young adult Tag: Nick Hern Books
  • Details
  • Additional information

A smouldering play about escaping the past, seizing the present and owning the future.

2nd May 1997. An historic victory. The Tories, eighteen years in power, are defeated as New Labour sweeps into government. From the euphoria and despair, three deeply personal stories emerge.

Tory MP Robert prepares to attend the count. With defeat looming large, he fears becoming a forgotten man, while his wife Marie counts the cost of her own sacrifice to politics. Lib Dem footsoldier Ian is no hero, but party-crasher Sarah is determined to make him one. Best mates Jake and Will wake up with a new world order to memorise before their A-level Politics class. Jake dreams of Number 10. Will dreams of Jake.

Jack Thorne’s play 2nd May 1997 was first performed at the Bush Theatre, London, in September 2009 in a co-production with nabokov theatre company, in association with Watford Palace Theatre and Mercury Theatre Colchester.

‘Rising playwright Jack Thorne takes us back in time with such quiet profundity and verve you get a burst of inspiration to match the uplift of those distant days’
— Telegraph

‘Richly rewarding… playwright Jack Thorne elegantly refracts the early hours of Blair through three very different relationships… A superb 90 minutes’
— Evening Standard

Additional information

formats

ePub, Mobi, Print

More Titles To Explore

  • $31.99
    History and Criticism, Nick Hern Books, Theatre, Writers and Writing

    Theatre in Scotland

    Select options
  • $27.99
    Acting and audition, Nick Hern Books

    The Complete Stanislavsky Toolkit

    Select options
  • $23.99
    Drama, Full-length, Nick Hern Books, Plays, Shakespeare

    Arden of Faversham

    Select options
  • $14.99
    Comedy, Drama, Full-length, Nick Hern Books, Plays, Shakespeare

    The Shoemakers’ Holiday

    Select options
  • 9781848428201
    $25.99
    Drama, Full-length, Nick Hern Books, Plays

    Asking for It

    Select options
  • $23.99
    Adaptations, Drama, Full-length, Nick Hern Books, Plays, Political / social themes, Young adult

    A Tale of Two Cities

    Select options
  • $23.99
    Drama, Nick Hern Books, Plays

    Black Love

    Select options
  • $24.99
    One-act play, Plays

    CripTales: Six Monologues

    Select options
  • $31.99
    Directing and Theatremaking, Nick Hern Books

    Taking Stock: The Theatre of Max Stafford-Clark

    Select options
  • $24.99
    Acting and audition, Directing and Theatremaking, Nick Hern Books

    Drama Games for Those Who Like to Say No

    Select options
  • $24.99
    Adaptations, Drama, Full-length, Gender themes, Nick Hern Books, Plays, Plays by women, Political / social themes, Significant female role/s, Young adult

    Bird

    Select options
  • $19.99
    Diverse sexuality themes, Full-length, Gender themes, Nick Hern Books, One-act play, Plays, Political / social themes, Significant female role/s, Solo performer

    Joanne

    Select options
Previous - Next

Search titles

Product categories

  • Acting and audition 120
  • Activities and Games 13
  • Adaptations 150
  • Australian history 57
  • Australian Screen Classics 14
  • Auto/biography 16
  • Award winning 77
  • Black comedy 22
  • CALD writer 18
  • Children’s theatre 35
  • Comedy 261
  • Cross-artform plays 3
  • Currency Press 459
  • Dance and Movement 17
  • Directing and Theatremaking 78
  • Diverse sexuality themes 73
  • Drama 1261
  • Education 14
  • Epic 18
  • Farce 10
  • Full-length 702
  • Gender themes 110
  • Gift Cards 6
  • History and Criticism 31
  • Indigenous playwrights 30
  • Indigenous themes 53
  • Internationally produced 4
  • Monologues 36
  • Multicultural themes 89
  • Music 11
  • Musicals / plays with music 64
  • Mystery 25
  • Naturalism / realism 40
  • New Releases 24
  • Nick Hern Books 1186
  • One-act play 27
  • Physical theatre 9
  • Platform Papers 59
  • Play Collections 108
  • Plays 1327
  • Plays by women 255
  • Poetic 38
  • Political / social themes 431
  • Satire 19
  • Screen books 8
  • Screenplays 7
  • Shakespeare 62
  • Short play under 15 minutes 13
  • Significant female role/s 348
  • Solo performer 58
  • Surreal / magic realism 93
  • Theatre 64
  • Two-hander 64
  • Uncategorized 1
  • Verbatim / close work theatre 20
  • Very short play under 15 minutes 1
  • Voice and performance skills 13
  • Writers and Writing 22
  • Young adult 203

Newsletter

Signup to our Newsletter


By submitting this form, you are consenting to receive marketing emails from: . You can revoke your consent to receive emails at any time by using the SafeUnsubscribe® link, found at the bottom of every email. Emails are serviced by Constant Contact

Links

Contact Us
Booksellers
History
Performance Rights
New Releases
Scripts

Links

The Currency Award
Authors
Submissions
Privacy Policy
Whats On Stage
Writers and Writing
Currency Press acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora nation, the traditional custodians of the land on which we work. We pay our respects to their elders past, present and emerging.  Always was, always will be Aboriginal Land.

© 2023 Currency Press. All Rights Reserved.

  • Books
    • New Releases
      • New Releases Currency Press
      • New Releases Nick Hern Books
    • Scripts
      • Children’s and Young Adult
      • Play Collections
      • Currency Press Plays
      • Nick Hern Books Plays
      • Screenplays
    • Professional Handbooks
      • Acting and audition
      • Activities and Games
      • Dance and Movement
      • Directing and Theatremaking
      • Shakespeare
      • Voice and performance skills
      • Writers and Writing
    • Performing arts general
      • Australian Screen Classics
      • Biography, History and Criticism
      • Theatre
      • Music
      • Education
    • Currency House Books
      • Platform Papers
      • General Titles
    • What’s On Stage
  • Authors
    • Currency Authors
    • Nick Hern Authors
  • Playwrights’ Festival
  • Online Resources
    • Catalogues/Price Lists
    • Cue the Chorus
    • Introductions
    • Not in Print Podcasts
    • Verbatim Theatre: interviews
    • Educators
      • Syllabus Text Lists
      • Teachers Notes / Study Guides
  • About Us
    • Contact us
    • Distributors and Booksellers
    • Performance Rights
    • Permissions
    • Submissions
    • History
    • Work with us
  • News
  • Account details
  • Orders
  • Addresses
  • Payment methods
  • Lost password
  • Login
  • Logout

Contact Us

Phone: +61 2 9319 5877

Mailing Address:
PO Box 2287,
Strawberry Hills, NSW 2012

Street Address:
Level 1, 164 James St (between Pitt & George St),
Redfern, NSW 2016
ABN: 75 000 938 929

General Enquiries:
[email protected]

Trade Enquiries: [email protected]

Cart

Search

2020 Copyright Currency Press