Author Description

<b>TIM PRICE </b>is a Welsh playwright and screenwriter. His plays include<i> For Once</i>, <i>Salt, Root and Roe</i> (winner of Best English Language playwright at the Theatre Critics of Wales Award),<i> I'm With The Band</i>, <i>Candylion The Insatiable Inflatable</i>, <i>Praxis Makes Perfect</i>, <i>The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning</i> (winner of the James Tait Black prize for drama), <i>Protest Song</i>, <i>Teh Internet Is Serious Business</i>, <i>Isla</i>, <i>Nye</i>, <i>Force Majeure</i> and <i>Odyssey '84</i>. He is co-founder of Welsh new writing company Dirty Protest and co-founder and Literary Manager for the Welsh National Theatre.<br/><b> </b><br/>The political and the personal are interwoven throughout his second collection of plays ranging from the story of the hero behind the NHS, to a moving comedy about a skiing holiday, and the tumultuous narrative of two 'hacktivists'.<br/><br/> <b>Odyssey '84: </b>"[Price] thrusts us breathlessly into a story that is as much thriller as it is human drama". <i>The Stage</i><br/> <br/><b>Nye:</b> "Nye is a vital play because Bevan is a vital man of British history." <i>Guardian</i><br/> <br/> <b>Isla:</b><i> </i>"A dark, multi-layered comedy." <i>The Stage</i><br/> <br/> <b>Force Majeure:</b> "It's brilliant stuff, smartly articulated by Price." <i>Guardian</i><br/> <br/> <b>Teh Internet Is Serious Business:<i> </i></b>"the play captures the teeming chaos of cyberspace and dramatises the reality of a global network of bright young people dedicated to challenging existing values." <i>Guardian</i>