Crocodiles
by Lee Mattinson

Crocodiles Book Cover
Crocodiles Cover

Synopsis

Crocodiles brings to life a dystopian, modern-fairytale town where fact and fiction weave as tightly and snag as easily as granny's knitting.

In a sleepy seaside town, Cornelia Glass is busy spinning yarn.

Witches are burnt in the town centre.

Crocodiles lurk in the shallows.

Boys who go to the big city are skinned alive by roving tramps.

Cornelia's oldest son, Rudolph, is being forced to give up his Punch and Judy show.

Matilda, his wife, is secretly writing her first romantic novel.

Their daughter, Lucy, can tell the future.

But when Cornelia's younger son, Vincent, returns from his glitzy television job in the big city, the stories that once held the Glass family together are in danger of smashing them to smithereens.

Lee Mattinson's Crocodiles was runner-up for the 2011 Verity Bargate Award, and premiered at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, in October 2014.

'dark, funny and off the wall' - WhatsOnStage

Performance

Cast

A small cast size of 4 total roles, 2 female and 2 male roles.

Publication

Year Published
2015
ISBN 10
1848424434
ISBN 13
9781848424432
Print Length
112 pages
Language
English
LCC
PR6113.A895
eISBN 13
9781780017389
Print
Crocodiles is a British teenage play written by and published by Nick Hern Books in 2015. The print edition has an ISBN-13 of 9781848424432 and an ISBN-10 of 1848424434.
Digital
ePlay digital editions are available on Amazon Kindle Apple Books with an ISBN-13 of 9781780017389.

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