Burying Your Brother in the Pavement
by Jack Thorne

Burying Your Brother in the Pavement Book Cover
Burying Your Brother in the Pavement Cover

Synopsis

A play about grief and looking at someone that little bit more closely.

Tom's brother Luke is dead.

This has upset a lot of people but it hasn't upset Tom.

Or, rather, it has upset him, but in ways he can't explain and other people can't understand.

You see, Tom and Luke were never friends.

In fact, Tom didn't really like Luke at all.

So it's an odd decision - to try and bury Luke in the pavement of the Tunstall Estate where he was killed.

But to Tom, it sort of makes sense, in a stupid-weird kind of way.

As he sleeps out on the pavement, he comes across planning officials, tramps, undertakers, police officers, sisters, mothers, estate agents, ghosts, pavement elephants, sky dragons and a strange lad called Tight who wants to sell him a Travelcard.

Written specifically for young people, Burying Your Brother in the Pavement was part of the 2008 National Theatre Connections Festival and was premiered by youth theatres across the UK.

Publication

Year Published
2014
ISBN 10
1848424167
ISBN 13
9781848424166
Binding
Paperback
Print Length
64 pages
Language
English
LCC
PR6120.H67
eISBN 13
9781780014838
Print
Burying Your Brother in the Pavement is a British teenage play written by and published by Nick Hern Books in 2014. The print edition has an ISBN-13 of 9781848424166 and an ISBN-10 of 1848424167.
Digital
ePlay digital editions are available on Amazon Kindle Apple Books with an ISBN-13 of 9781780014838.

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