Currency Press
0
  • Home
  • 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
  • Educators
    • Syllabus Text Lists
    • Teachers Notes / Study Guides
  • Online Resources
    • Catalogues
    • Cue the Chorus
    • Introductions
    • Not in Print Podcasts
    • Verbatim Theatre: interviews
  • About Us
    • Contact us
    • Distributors and Booksellers
    • Performance Rights
    • Permissions
    • Submissions
    • History
    • Work with us
  • What’s on stage
  • Log In
  • Log Out
0
was successfully added to your cart.

Press enter to begin your search
Home Drama Yen

Yen

$23.99

ISBN: 9781848425514
Author: By Anna Jordan
Publication Date: 21/01/2016
Publisher: Nick Hern Books
Extent: 144pp.
Availability: Available

Clear

— OR —

SKU: BK1329 Categories: Drama, Full-length, Nick Hern Books, Plays, Political / social themes, Young adult Tag: Nick Hern Books
  • Details
  • Additional information

Anna Jordan’s Bruntwood Prize-winning play, Yen explores a childhood lived without boundaries and the consequences of being forced to grow up on your own.

Hench is sixteen, Bobbie is thirteen. They’re home alone in Feltham with their dog Taliban; playing PlayStation, streaming porn, watching the world go by.

Sometimes their mum Maggie visits, usually with empty pockets and empty promises. Then Jenny shows up.

Anna Jordan’s play Yen won the 2013 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting and was first performed at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, before transferring to the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 2016.

This edition of Yen was published alongside the Royal Court Theatre production in January 2016.

‘To say that Yen is absorbing would be an understatement… what’s most remarkable about Anna Jordan’s writing is the taut mixture of incipient violence and utter, heart-wrenching tenderness’
— Exeunt Magazine

‘[A] terrifying, witty, and compassionate study of the awful penalties of growing up alone and without boundaries’
— Independent

‘A savage study of two teenage boys abandoned by society… leaves a lump in the throat that won’t go down’
— Time Out

‘[A] brutal but tender study of brotherhood… the dynamic range of Jordan’s writing is extraordinary… achieves the uncommon feat of being difficult to watch yet easy to love’
— Guardian

‘Very impressive… [Jordan] has a great ear for dialogue’
— British Theatre Guide

Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting

Additional information

formats

ePub, Mobi, Print

More Titles To Explore

  • $25.99
    Comedy, Drama, Full-length, Nick Hern Books, Plays, Political / social themes

    Four Nights in Knaresborough

    Select options
  • $249,929.99
    Drama, Full-length, Multicultural themes, Musicals / plays with music, Plays, Political / social themes, Significant female role/s

    Caroline, or Change

    Select options
  • $44.99
    Drama, Nick Hern Books, Play Collections, Plays

    Jez Butterworth Plays: Two

    Select options
  • $25.99
    Comedy, Full-length, Nick Hern Books, Plays, Political / social themes

    The Clink

    Select options
  • $29.99
    Drama, Play Collections, Plays

    The Guid Sisters and other plays

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

    Playing the Victim

    Select options
  • $13.99
    Drama, Full-length, Plays, Political / social themes

    Women of Troy

    Select options
  • $23.99
    Comedy, Drama, Full-length, Plays, Significant female role/s, Young adult

    Ramona Tells Jim

    Select options
  • $29.99
    Drama, Full-length, Plays, Political / social themes, Shakespeare, Surreal / magic realism

    Macbeth

    Select options
  • $23.99
    Adaptations, Drama, Full-length, Multicultural themes, Nick Hern Books, Plays, Surreal / magic realism, Young adult

    Lionboy (stage version)

    Select options
  • 9781848429086
    $25.99
    Drama, Full-length, Plays

    The Haystack

    Select options
  • $23.99
    Drama, Plays

    Dara

    Select options
Previous - Next

Search titles

Product categories

  • Acting and audition 111
  • Activities and Games 11
  • Adaptations 130
  • Australian history 57
  • Australian Screen Classics 15
  • Auto/biography 22
  • Award winning 70
  • Black comedy 20
  • CALD writer 13
  • Children’s theatre 36
  • Comedy 315
  • Cross-artform plays 3
  • Currency Press 455
  • Dance and Movement 17
  • Directing and Theatremaking 85
  • Diverse sexuality themes 71
  • Drama 1408
  • Education 12
  • Epic 15
  • Farce 8
  • Full-length 938
  • Gender themes 110
  • History and Criticism 42
  • Indigenous playwrights 23
  • Indigenous themes 44
  • Internationally produced 2
  • Monologues 17
  • Multicultural themes 95
  • Music 14
  • Musicals / plays with music 71
  • Mystery 23
  • Naturalism / realism 37
  • New Releases 12
  • Nick Hern Books 260
  • One-act play 33
  • Physical theatre 8
  • Platform Papers 58
  • Play Collections 125
  • Plays 1546
  • Plays by women 213
  • Poetic 37
  • Political / social themes 458
  • Satire 17
  • Screen books 9
  • Screenplays 7
  • Shakespeare 103
  • Short play under 15 minutes 12
  • Significant female role/s 369
  • Solo performer 55
  • Surreal / magic realism 100
  • Theatre 66
  • Two-hander 69
  • Uncategorized 1
  • Verbatim / close work theatre 17
  • Very short play under 15 minutes 1
  • Voice and performance skills 9
  • Whats On Stage 4
  • Writers and Writing 23
  • Young adult 198

Search

All Rights Reserved.

  • Home
  • 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
  • Educators
    • Syllabus Text Lists
    • Teachers Notes / Study Guides
  • Online Resources
    • Catalogues
    • Cue the Chorus
    • Introductions
    • Not in Print Podcasts
    • Verbatim Theatre: interviews
  • About Us
    • Contact us
    • Distributors and Booksellers
    • Performance Rights
    • Permissions
    • Submissions
    • History
    • Work with us
  • What’s on stage
  • Log In
  • Log Out
  • Account details
  • Orders
  • Addresses
  • Payment methods
  • Lost password

Contact Us

Phone: +61 2 9319 5877
Fax: + 61 2 9319 3649

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:
enquiries@currency.com.au

Trade Enquiries: tradeaccounts@currency.com.au

Cart

Search

2020 Copyright Currency Press