At night, a young black boy is 'questioned' by a white South African
policeman. A terrible incident and the truth is buried. 36 years later,
when the truth is dug up, a tortured Jennifer watches over her dying
husband. But does her maid Beauty have the power to 'save' him, and is the price of remembering a dreadful secret one that Jennifer is
prepared to pay?
BONES is a ruthless excavation of South Africa in 2005, and in an age of threats, retribution and bloody revenge, it is an anthem for hope.
Kay Adshead's previous plays at the Bush Theatre include the internationally acclaimed Fringe First Winner THE BOGUS WOMAN, and BITES, which was shortlisted for the 2006 Susan Smith Blackburn Award.
Kay Adshead's writing work includes Thatcher's Women (produced by Paines Plough) at the Tricycle Theatre, nominated for the Susan Smith Blackburn Award and published by Methuen; The Still Born (Soho Theatre Company); the short play After The Party (Altered States) at the Liverpool Playhouse and subsequently made into a short film for Club X (Channel 4); Ravings: Dreamings (Manchester Library); Metal and Feathers – part of Small Objects of Desire at the Cockpit Theatre; Oranges and Lemons – a short film for BBC City Shorts; Bacillus, given rehearsed readings at the Cockpit and at the Hampstead and performed at the Red Room; Juicy Bits (The Lyric, Hammersmith), Lady Chill Lady Wad Lady Love Lady God (commissioned by the National Theatre as part of BT Connections and performed at the Tricycle and Lyttleton Theatres) and The Bogus People?s Poem (The Red Room/BAC). Kay has been awarded two Arts Council Theatre Writing Bursaries and in 1995 she received the Calouste Gulbenkian Award Bursary for performance poetry for The Slug Sabbatical, performed at the Red Room and published by Faber & Faber. Her play The Bogus Woman was produced at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh in 2000, where it won a Scotsman Fringe First, and at the Bush Theatre in 2001. It was also broadcast on BBC Radio 3 (produced by Catherine Bailey). The play is published by Oberon Books and was nominated for the 2001 Susan Smith Blackburn Award. Kay's play for children, The Snow Egg (Tiebreak Theatre), toured the UK in 2001. In Autumn 2002, Kay's latest radio play, Hanging, was broadcast on Radio 4 (produced by Catherine Bailey). Animal, Kay's last stage play, was mounted at the Soho Theatre in September 2003 and then toured the UK. It is published by Oberon Books. She has first hand experience of life in Texas, where she has been partly living for the past three years.
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