Most Popular Books by Jack Thorne

Oskar is a bullied, lonely teenage boy living with his mother on a housing estate at the edge of town when a spate of sinister killings rock the neighborhood. Eli is the young girl who has just moved in next door. She doesn''t go to school and never leaves the flat by day. Sensing in each other a kindred spirit, the two become devoted friends. What Oskar doesn''t know is that Eli has been a teenager for a very long time. An enchanting, brutal vampire myth and coming-of-age love story adapted from the best-selling novel and award-winning film.

Richard Burton, the firebrand Welsh actor, newly married to movie star Elizabeth Taylor, is to play the title role in an experimental new production of Hamlet under the exacting direction of John Gielgud. But as rehearsals progress, the collaboration between actor and director soon threatens to unravel. One of them is the most famous movie star in the world; the other, a patrician from an earlier age of theatre. The stage is set for two titans to collide. Jack Thorne''s The Motive and the Cue is a fierce, funny play which offers a glimpse into the politics of a rehearsal room and the relationship between art and celebrity. Commissioned and co-produced by Neal Street Productions, it opened at the National Theatre, London, in May 2023, directed by Sam Mendes and featuring Johnny Flynn as Burton, Mark Gatiss as Gielgud and Tuppence Middleton as Taylor.

Phil and Alice are in love - familiar, flawed, ordinary love. They are on a journey, but this journey doesn''t have an A to Z. Jack Thorne''s The Solid Life of Sugar Water is an intimate, tender play about loss, hurt and rediscovery. It previewed at The Drum, Theatre Royal Plymouth, and premiered at the 2015 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, in a co-production between Graeae Theatre Company and Theatre Royal Plymouth.

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Hanover; Or The Persecution of the Lowly" (A Story of the Wilmington Massacre) by Jack Thorne. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

The official playscript of the original West End production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. It''s been nineteen years since Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger saved the wizarding world, and now they''re back on a most extraordinary adventure, joined by a brave new generation that''s only just arrived at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. While Harry grapples with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs, his youngest son, Albus, struggles with the weight of a family legacy he never wanted. As past and present collide, both father and son are locked in a race through time as they battle mysterious forces, all while the future hangs in the balance. Based on an original story by J.K. Rowling, John Tiffany, and Jack Thorne, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is the complete and unabridged playscript of the award-winning West End production. This edition includes the final dialogue and stage directions of the original, two-part play, a conversation piece between director John Tiffany and playwright Jack Thorne, the Potter family tree, and a timeline of key events in the wizarding world leading up to Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.

In May 1926, Britain grinds to a halt, as workers down tools for the General Strike. With the printing presses shut down, the only sources of news are the government''s British Gazette, edited by Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill, and the independent, fledgling British Broadcasting Company, led by John Reith. The stage is set for a fierce battle over control of the news and who gets to define the truth. Jack Thorne''s When Winston Went To War With The Wireless is a gripping play about the birth of a great British institution and its efforts to stay impartial. It premiered at the Donmar Warehouse, London, in June 2023, directed by Katy Rudd, with Stephen Campbell Moore as Reith, Adrian Scarborough as Churchill, and Haydn Gwynne as Stanley Baldwin.

The first collection of plays by one of the UK''s most exciting young writers.

A new play by Jack Thorne adapted from Hirokazu Kore-eda''s award-winning film

Won the Fringe First Award, Edinburgh 2010. An exhilarating coming-of-age drama for a solo performer.

What on earth is happening to our planet? And who knows what to do? Certainties are few: every living thing is related to every other living thing; our actions have consequences; change is continual and inevitable. The National Theatre asked four of the country''s most exciting writers to investigate. The team spent six months interviewing key individuals from the worlds of science, politics, business and philosophy to create a fast-paced and provocative new play. Greenland premiered at the National Theatre, London, in February 2011.

A play for young people from one of the most exciting playwrights around.

A brilliantly honest and witty new musical from BAFTA Award-winning writer Jack Thorne with music by Stephen Warbeck, Junkyard is a coming-of-age story about friendship and standing up for what matters.

Double volume of plays from this "challenging, disturbing and distinctive new voice" (London Times).

An intriguing new theater piece by writer best known for his work in TV and film, including Shameless and Skins.

After the breakout success of his early work for stage and screen, Jack Thorne turned for inspiration to his own family for a series of plays about hope, idealism and domestic politics. The work in this collection - five full-length plays and two shorts - showcases his extraordinary ability to combine electrifying dialogue with heartfelt warmth, candour and humour. Hope (Royal Court Theatre, 2014) is a funny and scathing fable about the leaders of a local council faced with savage funding cuts. ''A surprisingly entertaining state-of-the-nation drama'' The Stage The Solid Life of Sugar Water (Graeae/Theatre Royal Plymouth, 2015) is an intimate, tender play about loss, hurt and rediscovery. ''Startlingly good... an adult play in the very best sense'' The Times Junkyard (Headlong, 2017) is a joyful celebration of imaginative play, a musical drama about a group of young people tasked with building a playground out of junk. ''Genuinely funny and poignant'' WhatsOnStage the end of history... (Royal Court, 2019) is a moving and sophisticated portrait of the impact of political idealism on a family. ''Clever and highly intriguing'' Independent Also included are Burying Your Brother in the Pavement, written for the National Theatre Connections Festival in 2008, which tackles complex themes of grief, violence and sexuality with fierce compassion and wild imagination; and two short plays: Whiff Whaff and Boo.

A play about the moral challenges of cutting local government services, written with Jack Thorne''s trademark wit, intelligence and humanity.

David Bryant Fulton (1863-1941) was an African American journalist and writer who also wrote as Jack Thorne. He was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and grew up in Wilmington, North Carolina, where he attended school. In 1887, he moved to New York, finding employment as a porter with the Pullman Palace Car Company. He began his writing career as a correspondent to the Wilmington Record, an African American newspaper. In 1892, he published Recollections of a Sleeping Car Porter, in which he used his pen name Jack Thorne for the first time. His other works include: Hanover; or, The Persecution of the Lowly (1900), Eagle Clippings (1907) and Plea for Social Justice for the Negro Woman (1912).

A new play from the writer of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.

Based on an original new story by J.K. Rowling, John Tiffany and Jack Thorne, a new play by Jack Thorne, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is the eighth story in the Harry Potter series and the first official Harry Potter story to be presented on stage. The play will receive its world premiere in London''s West End on 30th July 2016. It was always difficult being Harry Potter and it isn''t much easier now that he is an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic, a husband and father of three school-age children. While Harry grapples with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs, his youngest son Albus must struggle with the weight of a family legacy he never wanted. As past and present fuse ominously, both father and son learn the uncomfortable truth: sometimes, darkness comes from unexpected places.

Jack Thorne''s debut play ''When You Cure Me'' is a drama about being very young and in love - and coping with serious illness at the same time. It was first performed at the Bush Theatre, London on 16 November 2005.

Over the past decade there has been growing media attention to the problems of student loans, rising tuition costs, an escalating student debt crisis and the implications of all this for graduate futures. However, there has been relatively little anthropological literature that deals with this field. This thesis explores the ways students, the student loan scheme and student loan discourse engage in processes of responsibilisation. Drawing on lived experiences of student borrowers and student loan discourse found in White Papers, parliamentary discussions, media representations and task force policy reports this thesis will discuss how neoliberalisation is entrenched within the funding mechanisms of tertiary education. The central aim of neoliberal governmentality ("the conduct of conduct") is the strategic construction of social conditions that encourages and necessitates the production of homo economicus, a historically grounded form of person constituted by market forces as a free and autonomous atom of self-interest. Analysis reveals a shift, parallel with the removal of interest from student loans, in the discursive production of students from ''market-subjects'' to ''fiscally responsible'' subjects. I argue that there is an overarching reliance on discourses of student responsibilisation within New Zealand''s Student Loan Scheme, whereby the actions of students and the risks they are exposed to are perceived as rational choices rather than inherent outcomes of a privatising funding mechanism. Student loan discourse, by discursively producing students as ''fiscally responsible'', are making them responsible to state, the taxpayer, the government, the nation and the future generations of students. Through an ethnographic investigation into contemporary student experience, the neglected voices of students problematize the dominance of the ''fiscally responsible'' student. Using the concept of ''competing responsibilities'' (Trnka & Trundle 2014), I argue that students are rejecting their representation as fiscally responsible, making space for other forms of responsibility and obligation that conflict with neoliberal modes. Further, students are also negotiating with and unpacking what it means to be responsible; relocating themselves as experts within the field of student loan expenditure.

Jack Thorne''s play ''Fanny and Faggot'' presents two distinct moments in the life of Mary Bell, the eleven-year-old Newcastle girl who was convicted of the manslaughter of two toddlers in 1968. It was first performed at the Finborough Theatre, London, on 30 January 2007.

The play, set entirely in a bathroom, follows a young couple - Marian and David - through the course of a day, from morning ablutions through to a horribly failed attempt at a candle-lit romantic bath in the evening and its chastened aftermath. It is gradually revealed that this is the anniversary of a devastating event, and the fissures in the couple''s relationship are finally exposed.