ANTHONY WEIGH
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Plays by Anthony Weigh
2,000 Feet Away |
| 1st Produced: | Belvoir Street Downstairs | 2007 | ||
| Company: | Belvoir Street Theatre | |||
| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London | 2008 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: Awards: Sydney Theatre Awards, Best Independent Production, 2007: shortlisted. Shortlisted for the 2007 Frogbattleship/B Sharp production. Patrick White Playwrights Award, 2006: shortlisted. European premier at the Bush Theatre in London, 2008 | ||||
Synopsis: In November of 2005 the Iowa State Legislature passed a bill making it a criminal offence for a registered sex offender to live within 2,000 feet of a school. Many towns in Iowa and nearby states have added to the list of prohibited places: day-care centres, parks, shopping malls, public swimming pools, bus stops and libraries. Due to the systematic eviction of sex offenders from their homes, 20% of known sex offenders in Iowa have now disappeared from the public record. In a brave and compelling story, writer Anthony Weigh asks us to examine how seemingly reasonable legislation can have awful consequences, as one small town deputy sheriff struggles to enforce the law and protect the innocent from the fear, revulsion, violence and rage surrounding child sex offenders. Source: Belvoir Street website, http://www.belvoir.com.au/ - Information extracted from AustLit: http://www.austlit.edu.au | ||||
