Synopsis
Across Oka - STUDENT EDITION - includes Notes & Commentary
Published by Methuen
When the two boys, Matty and Nikolai are given the responsibility of travelling into the wilds, the clash of their personalities, education and experience provokes in Matty an appalling destructiveness
This vital drama is of particular interest and relevance to young people
"Robert Holman is the quiet man among modern British dramatists ... an outstanding work that sings with truth" - Michael Billington
"Robert Holman's Across Oka is about metamorphosis and manipulation in the lives of passionate, gentle people in north Yorkshire and eastern Russia, the first open to all experience, the second constrained by the discipline of an enclosing state ... alive with theatrical confrontation and generosity of spirit" - Michael Ratcliffe, Observer