Bryony lavery biography for kids
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Frozen
BRYONY LAVERY
1998
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INTRODUCTION
Frozen, by British playwright Bryony Lavery, was first produced in 1998, by the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, in Birmingham, England. It is available in an edition published by Faber and Faber in 2002. Frozen is about the murder of a ten-year-old girl by a child-molesting serial killer and the crime's aftermath. There are three main characters, whose stories begin separately but then gradually converge. Agnetha, a psychiatrist from New York, presents evidence that violent criminals are brain damaged and not responsible for what they do. Nancy, the mother of the victim, is eventually able to forgive the murderer, Ralph, who for his part finally learns to feel remorse.
Frozen raises issues of great importance for criminal justice. Is the murderer evil or is his crime only the symptom of an illness? The play also explores the act of forgiveness. How can it be possible for a mother to forgive a man who has sexually molested and murdered her young daughter? With its powerful emotional impact, Frozen has been an international success. In recent years it has been one of the most produced plays
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Cultural Life: Bryony Lavery, Playwright
Books
I'm re-reading Elizabeth Taylor; A Game of Hide and Seek, The Soul of Kindness and now Angel. Barack Obama's The Audacity of Hope. I've been halfway through Daniel Deronda since August 2007.
Film
Mamma Mia! – fantastic. I saw two documentaries about terrible obsessives: Man on Wire, and The Artist and the Sudanese Twins at the Edinburgh Film Festival. In my TV-less house, there's currently a Kieslowski retrospective.
Television
I threw my television out! Now I'm box-set woman. I've run the White House for two terms in The West Wing, failed to clean up Baltimore in The Wire and augmented my swearing with Deadwood.
Music
Not one opera this year! I've had a 16-year-old niece staying, so lots of Duffy, Bright Eyes, Fleet Foxes, Blitzen Trapper and Mason Jennings. My cool nephew Mark gave me The New Adventures of Jassi Sidhu. And Mamma Mia! got me listening to Abba again.
Theatre
I've mostly been rehearsing – Stockholm with Frantic Assembly, The Bloody Chamber with Northern Stage, Kursk with Sound and Fury. I loved Abi Morgan's Fugee, and a fabulous Doll's House in a period apartment in Oslo.
Visual arts
My house is full of Alison Neville prints. In February, with more nieces, I loved the Egyptian Museum, the to