Maggie Stone

Title: Maggie Stone
Author: Lewis, Caleb
Price: $19.99

Stone in both heart and name, loans officer Maggie has no sympathy for the applicants who cross her path daily, no matter how desperate their stories may be. That is until an African refugee who is desperately trying to rebuild a life for herself and her family is brought to Stone by a friend. Something clicks and Stone is overcome with compassion. The trade off? She will have to revisit a life she had long hoped to forget.
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Back in Kenyain the campsthey say we can stay there for free. But everybody wants something. The journalists want our stories; the NGOs want us to sing in their choirs; the SPLA wants our sons as soldiers. The spirits of our ancestors want us to honour them...

Maggie Stone is a battle axe. Shes rude, prickly and doesnt owe the world a thing. This makes her an ideal loans officer. But when a family of strangers finally awakens her compassion, Maggie will learn firsthand the politics of charity. For even favours require gratitude, investment requires returns, and an outstanding debt awaits satisfaction. And soon the life Maggie borrowed will need to be paid for.

Maggie Stone is about loneliness and debt, the risk that comes from asking others of help and the cost of living a life owing nobody. Nominated for the Western Australian Premiers Script Award, Maggie Stone by Caleb Lewis paints an unflinchingly honest yet ultimately empathetic portrait of modern Australia.



In his astutely incisive, often bitterly funny, new work Maggie Stone, playwright Caleb Lewis asks, How do borrowing and lending affect our relationships with others? The Australian

'This is a play about the people in our community and the attitudes that make up our society. It will make you question your own views and actions.' Kryztoff, RRR

Cast : 2M; 4F

CALEB LEWIS is a multi-award winning writer whose plays have been produced locally and internationally. Mentored by Nick Enright and Edward Albee, Lewis is a former resident playwright at Griffin Theatre and the 2015 writer in residence at Red Snitch Actors Theatre. He has been shortlisted for the Griffin Award and is the winner of an Inscription Award, the Mitch Matthews Award, an Ink Award and an AWGIE (Australian Writers' Guild Award). He is the inaugural winner of the Richard Burton Award for New Plays. His plays include Nailed, Dogfall, Death in Bowengabbie, Songs for the Deaf, Aleksander and the Robot Mind, Destroyer of Worlds, Clinchfield and Rust and Bone.

Publisher: Currency Press Pty Ltd
Publication date: 01/07/2015
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781925005455
Publishing status: AU Dropshipping in stock