Vernon God Little (2003) is a novel by DBC Pierre. It was his debut novel and won the Booker Prize in 2003. It has twice been adapted as a stage play.
Plot synopsis
The life of Vernon Little, a normal teenager who lives in Martirio, Texas, falls apart when his best friend, Jesus Navarro, murders their classmates in the schoolyard before killing himself, and Vernon is taken in for questioning. He cooperates with Deputy Vain Gurie, because he had been running an errand for a teacher, Mr. Nuckles, and is not involved in the massacre. The perception of Vernon's innocence weakens when his Mom's best friend, the food-obsessed Palmyra (Pam) arrives and, against Vernon's better judgment, whisks him off to Bar-B-Chew Barn, allowing the police to claim he is a flight risk. Eulalio ("Lally") Ledesma, supposedly a CNN reporter, ingratiates himself to Doris, Vernon's Mom, and promises to help Vernon "shift the paradigm" of his story. Instead, Lally betrays Vernon, who is returned to jail pending a psychiatric analysis.
The Strange Case of Vernon God Little | The Booker Prize Podcast: Episode 5
What exactly is “a Booker novel”? Some might jump to a specific kind of high-minded, serious fiction, while others argue for a broader definition inclusive of more mainstream novels. Over the years, the pendulum has swung between the two and in 2003, DBC Pierre's darkly comic debut novel about an acerbic, foul-mouthed 15-year-old boy who goes on the run after a mass shooting at his Texas high school, was awarded the prize. 20 years after its win, we take a closer look at the novel and why it was an unexpected winner.
In this episode, Jo and James talk about:
- Their childhood reading inspirations
- A brief – and slightly spoiler-y – summary of the novel
- The reaction to its 2003 Man Booker Prize win
- The author behind the novel
- Whether Vernon God Little stands up to reading 20 years a...
published: 27 Jul 2023
DramSoc presents: VERNON GOD LITTLE - Teaser #1
Meet Vernon Little, best friend of Jesus Navarro who killed 16 of his classmates before taking his own life. Is Vernon truly innocent?
Join us this February for Bristol Dramsoc's largest full length play of the year, our third production in the brand new Winston Theatre in the Student's Union for four unforgettable perfomances.
Vernon God Little, originally a Booker prize winning novel, opened to rave reviews at the Young Vic in 2011 and is now set to get the Dramsoc treatment in what is gearing up to be the production of the year.
Tickets are available now at:
https://www.ubutheatre.com/production.php?prod=187
Filmed and Edited by Ella Kemp and Diggory Waite.
published: 25 Jan 2016
Vernon God Little
Vernon Little lives in a flea –bitten Texan town, “the barbeque sauce capital of the state”, where his best friend has just massacred sixteen of his classmates. The town wants vengeance and turns its sights on the innocent Vernon who is arrested from the start of the story. As the saying goes – “when the going gets tough, the tough get going” – Vernon hits the road and flees to Mexico pursued by a media circus of outlandish proportions.
Vernon God Little is a riotous, irreverent adventure with a fast-talking fifteen year old who cruelly ends up on a version of death row driven by the rules of reality TV. Desperate times throw up the most unlikely of heroes. Vernon’s innate innocence exposes the nature of the American experience of justice in the eye of a media storm, and since he’s a boy ...
published: 15 Sep 2015
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Vernon God Little performed at the Friary School in March 2015 for AS Performing arts. Contains SUPER strong language dude.
Cast:
Vernon: TJ Hewlett (C)
Mom: Jessica Long (A)
Lally: Tyler Young (C)
Jesus/Lasalle: Louis McCoy (U)
Vaine/Leona/Team Leader/Chrissie/Media Court Officer: Matilda Markantonakis (C)
Sheriff Porkorney/Brad/Mr Keeter/Lally's Mom/Mr Deutschman/Bartender/Prosecutor/Jonsey: Patrick Grainger (C)
Pam/Judge/Little Old Lady/Border Guard/Pelayo's Wife: Eleanor Ramsden (A)
Eileena/Taylor/May-May/Acapulco Clerk: Lauren Jones (C)
Mr Abdini/Pastor Gibbons/Todd/Heavy/Silas/Cameraman/Brian/Con One: Matthew Dale (E)
Court Officer/Dr Goosens/Kid In Braces/Steven/Bus Driver/Pelayo/Con Two: Alex Warren (D)
Ella Keeter/Foreman: Jess Daley (E)
Directed by Richard Hughes
Lighting by ...
published: 05 Aug 2016
Vernon God Little - Audience Feedback
Vernon God Little
by DBC Pierre
Adapted by Tanya Ronder
Directed by Rufus Norris
extended until 12 March 2011
Young Vic Theatre
published: 11 Feb 2011
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published: 30 Nov 2018
Video: Vernon God Little
Vernon God Little runs Oct. 28 - Nov. 7 at the Greystone Theatre on the University of Saskatchewan campus.
published: 28 Feb 2018
Vernon God Little Dance
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Vernon God Little
by DBC Pierre
Adapted by Tanya Ronder
Directed by Rufus Norris
http://www.youngvic.org/archive/vernon-god-little
published: 17 Mar 2011
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Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre
Description:
WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2003
WINNER OF THE 2003 WHITBREAD FIRST NOVEL PRIZE
Meet fifteen-year-old Vernon Gregory Little. Desperate times call for the most unlikely of heroes.
'Startling . . . explosive and extravagantly satisfying.' Guardian
'Dangerous, smart, ridiculous and very funny.' New York Times.
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What exactly is “a Booker novel”? Some might jump to a specific kind of high-minded, serious fiction, while others argue for a broader definition inclusive of m...
What exactly is “a Booker novel”? Some might jump to a specific kind of high-minded, serious fiction, while others argue for a broader definition inclusive of more mainstream novels. Over the years, the pendulum has swung between the two and in 2003, DBC Pierre's darkly comic debut novel about an acerbic, foul-mouthed 15-year-old boy who goes on the run after a mass shooting at his Texas high school, was awarded the prize. 20 years after its win, we take a closer look at the novel and why it was an unexpected winner.
In this episode, Jo and James talk about:
- Their childhood reading inspirations
- A brief – and slightly spoiler-y – summary of the novel
- The reaction to its 2003 Man Booker Prize win
- The author behind the novel
- Whether Vernon God Little stands up to reading 20 years after its release
- Books to read after reading Vernon God Little
Books and authors discussed in this episode:
- Matilda by Roald Dahl
- Rudyard Kipling
- Charles Dickens
- Vladimir Nabokov
- Virginia Woolf
- The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- The ‘His Dark Materials’ trilogy by Philip Pullman
- The Moomins books by Tove Jansson
- Notes on a Scandal by Zoë Heller
- Brick Lane by Monica Ali
- Schopenhauer's Telescope by Gerard Donovan
- Life of Pi by Yann Martel
- Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
- The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
- True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
- The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
- In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
- Us by David Nicholls
- The Patrick Melrose novels by Edward St. Aubyn
- Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi
- Philip Larkin
A full transcript of the episode is available at our website.
If you've got a problem you'd like some literary help with, email us at [email protected] using the subject line “The Booker Clinic”.
Follow The Booker Prize Podcast so you never miss an episode. Visit http://thebookerprizes.com/podcast to find out more about us, and follow us on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and Tiktok @thebookerprizes.
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The Booker Prize is the leading literary award in the English speaking world, and has brought recognition, reward and readership to outstanding fiction for over five decades. Each year, the prize is awarded to what is, in the opinion of the judges, the best novel of the year written in English and published in the UK and Ireland.
Previous winners include The Testaments by Margaret Atwood, Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, The Promise by Damon Galgut, Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally, Life of Pi by Yann Martel, The Bone People by Keri Hulme and many more.
#TheBookerPrize
What exactly is “a Booker novel”? Some might jump to a specific kind of high-minded, serious fiction, while others argue for a broader definition inclusive of more mainstream novels. Over the years, the pendulum has swung between the two and in 2003, DBC Pierre's darkly comic debut novel about an acerbic, foul-mouthed 15-year-old boy who goes on the run after a mass shooting at his Texas high school, was awarded the prize. 20 years after its win, we take a closer look at the novel and why it was an unexpected winner.
In this episode, Jo and James talk about:
- Their childhood reading inspirations
- A brief – and slightly spoiler-y – summary of the novel
- The reaction to its 2003 Man Booker Prize win
- The author behind the novel
- Whether Vernon God Little stands up to reading 20 years after its release
- Books to read after reading Vernon God Little
Books and authors discussed in this episode:
- Matilda by Roald Dahl
- Rudyard Kipling
- Charles Dickens
- Vladimir Nabokov
- Virginia Woolf
- The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- The ‘His Dark Materials’ trilogy by Philip Pullman
- The Moomins books by Tove Jansson
- Notes on a Scandal by Zoë Heller
- Brick Lane by Monica Ali
- Schopenhauer's Telescope by Gerard Donovan
- Life of Pi by Yann Martel
- Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
- The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
- True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
- The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
- In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
- Us by David Nicholls
- The Patrick Melrose novels by Edward St. Aubyn
- Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi
- Philip Larkin
A full transcript of the episode is available at our website.
If you've got a problem you'd like some literary help with, email us at [email protected] using the subject line “The Booker Clinic”.
Follow The Booker Prize Podcast so you never miss an episode. Visit http://thebookerprizes.com/podcast to find out more about us, and follow us on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and Tiktok @thebookerprizes.
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The Booker Prize is the leading literary award in the English speaking world, and has brought recognition, reward and readership to outstanding fiction for over five decades. Each year, the prize is awarded to what is, in the opinion of the judges, the best novel of the year written in English and published in the UK and Ireland.
Previous winners include The Testaments by Margaret Atwood, Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, The Promise by Damon Galgut, Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally, Life of Pi by Yann Martel, The Bone People by Keri Hulme and many more.
#TheBookerPrize
Meet Vernon Little, best friend of Jesus Navarro who killed 16 of his classmates before taking his own life. Is Vernon truly innocent?
Join us this February f...
Meet Vernon Little, best friend of Jesus Navarro who killed 16 of his classmates before taking his own life. Is Vernon truly innocent?
Join us this February for Bristol Dramsoc's largest full length play of the year, our third production in the brand new Winston Theatre in the Student's Union for four unforgettable perfomances.
Vernon God Little, originally a Booker prize winning novel, opened to rave reviews at the Young Vic in 2011 and is now set to get the Dramsoc treatment in what is gearing up to be the production of the year.
Tickets are available now at:
https://www.ubutheatre.com/production.php?prod=187
Filmed and Edited by Ella Kemp and Diggory Waite.
Meet Vernon Little, best friend of Jesus Navarro who killed 16 of his classmates before taking his own life. Is Vernon truly innocent?
Join us this February for Bristol Dramsoc's largest full length play of the year, our third production in the brand new Winston Theatre in the Student's Union for four unforgettable perfomances.
Vernon God Little, originally a Booker prize winning novel, opened to rave reviews at the Young Vic in 2011 and is now set to get the Dramsoc treatment in what is gearing up to be the production of the year.
Tickets are available now at:
https://www.ubutheatre.com/production.php?prod=187
Filmed and Edited by Ella Kemp and Diggory Waite.
Vernon Little lives in a flea –bitten Texan town, “the barbeque sauce capital of the state”, where his best friend has just massacred sixteen of his classmates....
Vernon Little lives in a flea –bitten Texan town, “the barbeque sauce capital of the state”, where his best friend has just massacred sixteen of his classmates. The town wants vengeance and turns its sights on the innocent Vernon who is arrested from the start of the story. As the saying goes – “when the going gets tough, the tough get going” – Vernon hits the road and flees to Mexico pursued by a media circus of outlandish proportions.
Vernon God Little is a riotous, irreverent adventure with a fast-talking fifteen year old who cruelly ends up on a version of death row driven by the rules of reality TV. Desperate times throw up the most unlikely of heroes. Vernon’s innate innocence exposes the nature of the American experience of justice in the eye of a media storm, and since he’s a boy of such sweetness, he makes death row a respectable address.
‘The debut of one of the most original and seriously funny narrative voices in recent times’ – Sean O’Hagan, Observer
Written by DBC Pierre
Presented by Decadent Theatre Company
Booker Prize Winner 2003
100 Best Things in the World by GQ Magazine
Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Award for Comic Writing 2003
The Young Vic audience voted it in the top 3 shows of the last twenty five years.
Thursday 22nd - Friday 23rd October 2015 // 8:00pm
€20 & €18 concession
Booking: 01 4627477 / www.civictheatre.ie
Vernon Little lives in a flea –bitten Texan town, “the barbeque sauce capital of the state”, where his best friend has just massacred sixteen of his classmates. The town wants vengeance and turns its sights on the innocent Vernon who is arrested from the start of the story. As the saying goes – “when the going gets tough, the tough get going” – Vernon hits the road and flees to Mexico pursued by a media circus of outlandish proportions.
Vernon God Little is a riotous, irreverent adventure with a fast-talking fifteen year old who cruelly ends up on a version of death row driven by the rules of reality TV. Desperate times throw up the most unlikely of heroes. Vernon’s innate innocence exposes the nature of the American experience of justice in the eye of a media storm, and since he’s a boy of such sweetness, he makes death row a respectable address.
‘The debut of one of the most original and seriously funny narrative voices in recent times’ – Sean O’Hagan, Observer
Written by DBC Pierre
Presented by Decadent Theatre Company
Booker Prize Winner 2003
100 Best Things in the World by GQ Magazine
Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Award for Comic Writing 2003
The Young Vic audience voted it in the top 3 shows of the last twenty five years.
Thursday 22nd - Friday 23rd October 2015 // 8:00pm
€20 & €18 concession
Booking: 01 4627477 / www.civictheatre.ie
Vernon God Little performed at the Friary School in March 2015 for AS Performing arts. Contains SUPER strong language dude.
Cast:
Vernon: TJ Hewlett (C)
Mom: J...
Vernon God Little performed at the Friary School in March 2015 for AS Performing arts. Contains SUPER strong language dude.
Cast:
Vernon: TJ Hewlett (C)
Mom: Jessica Long (A)
Lally: Tyler Young (C)
Jesus/Lasalle: Louis McCoy (U)
Vaine/Leona/Team Leader/Chrissie/Media Court Officer: Matilda Markantonakis (C)
Sheriff Porkorney/Brad/Mr Keeter/Lally's Mom/Mr Deutschman/Bartender/Prosecutor/Jonsey: Patrick Grainger (C)
Pam/Judge/Little Old Lady/Border Guard/Pelayo's Wife: Eleanor Ramsden (A)
Eileena/Taylor/May-May/Acapulco Clerk: Lauren Jones (C)
Mr Abdini/Pastor Gibbons/Todd/Heavy/Silas/Cameraman/Brian/Con One: Matthew Dale (E)
Court Officer/Dr Goosens/Kid In Braces/Steven/Bus Driver/Pelayo/Con Two: Alex Warren (D)
Ella Keeter/Foreman: Jess Daley (E)
Directed by Richard Hughes
Lighting by Jessica James
Sound FX by Dan Branch
This piece was for AS Performing arts which went towards our final grades. The letters next to everybody's name is what each actor achieved for this performance.
Vernon God Little performed at the Friary School in March 2015 for AS Performing arts. Contains SUPER strong language dude.
Cast:
Vernon: TJ Hewlett (C)
Mom: Jessica Long (A)
Lally: Tyler Young (C)
Jesus/Lasalle: Louis McCoy (U)
Vaine/Leona/Team Leader/Chrissie/Media Court Officer: Matilda Markantonakis (C)
Sheriff Porkorney/Brad/Mr Keeter/Lally's Mom/Mr Deutschman/Bartender/Prosecutor/Jonsey: Patrick Grainger (C)
Pam/Judge/Little Old Lady/Border Guard/Pelayo's Wife: Eleanor Ramsden (A)
Eileena/Taylor/May-May/Acapulco Clerk: Lauren Jones (C)
Mr Abdini/Pastor Gibbons/Todd/Heavy/Silas/Cameraman/Brian/Con One: Matthew Dale (E)
Court Officer/Dr Goosens/Kid In Braces/Steven/Bus Driver/Pelayo/Con Two: Alex Warren (D)
Ella Keeter/Foreman: Jess Daley (E)
Directed by Richard Hughes
Lighting by Jessica James
Sound FX by Dan Branch
This piece was for AS Performing arts which went towards our final grades. The letters next to everybody's name is what each actor achieved for this performance.
DBC Pierre is the Booker prize winning author who wrote Vernon God Little. In this interview he talks about writing.
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Do you know the "Vernon dance"?
Vernon God Little
by DBC Pierre
Adapted by Tanya Ronder
Directed by Rufus Norris
http://www.youngvic.org/archive/vernon-god-lit...
Do you know the "Vernon dance"?
Vernon God Little
by DBC Pierre
Adapted by Tanya Ronder
Directed by Rufus Norris
http://www.youngvic.org/archive/vernon-god-little
Do you know the "Vernon dance"?
Vernon God Little
by DBC Pierre
Adapted by Tanya Ronder
Directed by Rufus Norris
http://www.youngvic.org/archive/vernon-god-little
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Description:
WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2003
WINNER OF THE 2003 WHITBREAD FIRST NOVEL PRIZE
Meet fifteen-year-old Vernon Gregory Little. Desperate times c...
Description:
WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2003
WINNER OF THE 2003 WHITBREAD FIRST NOVEL PRIZE
Meet fifteen-year-old Vernon Gregory Little. Desperate times call for the most unlikely of heroes.
'Startling . . . explosive and extravagantly satisfying.' Guardian
'Dangerous, smart, ridiculous and very funny.' New York Times.
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Description:
WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2003
WINNER OF THE 2003 WHITBREAD FIRST NOVEL PRIZE
Meet fifteen-year-old Vernon Gregory Little. Desperate times call for the most unlikely of heroes.
'Startling . . . explosive and extravagantly satisfying.' Guardian
'Dangerous, smart, ridiculous and very funny.' New York Times.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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What exactly is “a Booker novel”? Some might jump to a specific kind of high-minded, serious fiction, while others argue for a broader definition inclusive of more mainstream novels. Over the years, the pendulum has swung between the two and in 2003, DBC Pierre's darkly comic debut novel about an acerbic, foul-mouthed 15-year-old boy who goes on the run after a mass shooting at his Texas high school, was awarded the prize. 20 years after its win, we take a closer look at the novel and why it was an unexpected winner.
In this episode, Jo and James talk about:
- Their childhood reading inspirations
- A brief – and slightly spoiler-y – summary of the novel
- The reaction to its 2003 Man Booker Prize win
- The author behind the novel
- Whether Vernon God Little stands up to reading 20 years after its release
- Books to read after reading Vernon God Little
Books and authors discussed in this episode:
- Matilda by Roald Dahl
- Rudyard Kipling
- Charles Dickens
- Vladimir Nabokov
- Virginia Woolf
- The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- The ‘His Dark Materials’ trilogy by Philip Pullman
- The Moomins books by Tove Jansson
- Notes on a Scandal by Zoë Heller
- Brick Lane by Monica Ali
- Schopenhauer's Telescope by Gerard Donovan
- Life of Pi by Yann Martel
- Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
- The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
- True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
- The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
- In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
- Us by David Nicholls
- The Patrick Melrose novels by Edward St. Aubyn
- Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi
- Philip Larkin
A full transcript of the episode is available at our website.
If you've got a problem you'd like some literary help with, email us at [email protected] using the subject line “The Booker Clinic”.
Follow The Booker Prize Podcast so you never miss an episode. Visit http://thebookerprizes.com/podcast to find out more about us, and follow us on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and Tiktok @thebookerprizes.
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The Booker Prizes on Twitter: twitter.com/TheBookerPrizes
The Booker Prizes on Facebook: facebook.com/TheBookerPrizes
The Booker Prizes on Instagram: instagram.com/thebookerprizes
The Booker Prize is the leading literary award in the English speaking world, and has brought recognition, reward and readership to outstanding fiction for over five decades. Each year, the prize is awarded to what is, in the opinion of the judges, the best novel of the year written in English and published in the UK and Ireland.
Previous winners include The Testaments by Margaret Atwood, Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, The Promise by Damon Galgut, Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally, Life of Pi by Yann Martel, The Bone People by Keri Hulme and many more.
#TheBookerPrize
Meet Vernon Little, best friend of Jesus Navarro who killed 16 of his classmates before taking his own life. Is Vernon truly innocent?
Join us this February for Bristol Dramsoc's largest full length play of the year, our third production in the brand new Winston Theatre in the Student's Union for four unforgettable perfomances.
Vernon God Little, originally a Booker prize winning novel, opened to rave reviews at the Young Vic in 2011 and is now set to get the Dramsoc treatment in what is gearing up to be the production of the year.
Tickets are available now at:
https://www.ubutheatre.com/production.php?prod=187
Filmed and Edited by Ella Kemp and Diggory Waite.
Vernon Little lives in a flea –bitten Texan town, “the barbeque sauce capital of the state”, where his best friend has just massacred sixteen of his classmates. The town wants vengeance and turns its sights on the innocent Vernon who is arrested from the start of the story. As the saying goes – “when the going gets tough, the tough get going” – Vernon hits the road and flees to Mexico pursued by a media circus of outlandish proportions.
Vernon God Little is a riotous, irreverent adventure with a fast-talking fifteen year old who cruelly ends up on a version of death row driven by the rules of reality TV. Desperate times throw up the most unlikely of heroes. Vernon’s innate innocence exposes the nature of the American experience of justice in the eye of a media storm, and since he’s a boy of such sweetness, he makes death row a respectable address.
‘The debut of one of the most original and seriously funny narrative voices in recent times’ – Sean O’Hagan, Observer
Written by DBC Pierre
Presented by Decadent Theatre Company
Booker Prize Winner 2003
100 Best Things in the World by GQ Magazine
Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Award for Comic Writing 2003
The Young Vic audience voted it in the top 3 shows of the last twenty five years.
Thursday 22nd - Friday 23rd October 2015 // 8:00pm
€20 & €18 concession
Booking: 01 4627477 / www.civictheatre.ie
Vernon God Little performed at the Friary School in March 2015 for AS Performing arts. Contains SUPER strong language dude.
Cast:
Vernon: TJ Hewlett (C)
Mom: Jessica Long (A)
Lally: Tyler Young (C)
Jesus/Lasalle: Louis McCoy (U)
Vaine/Leona/Team Leader/Chrissie/Media Court Officer: Matilda Markantonakis (C)
Sheriff Porkorney/Brad/Mr Keeter/Lally's Mom/Mr Deutschman/Bartender/Prosecutor/Jonsey: Patrick Grainger (C)
Pam/Judge/Little Old Lady/Border Guard/Pelayo's Wife: Eleanor Ramsden (A)
Eileena/Taylor/May-May/Acapulco Clerk: Lauren Jones (C)
Mr Abdini/Pastor Gibbons/Todd/Heavy/Silas/Cameraman/Brian/Con One: Matthew Dale (E)
Court Officer/Dr Goosens/Kid In Braces/Steven/Bus Driver/Pelayo/Con Two: Alex Warren (D)
Ella Keeter/Foreman: Jess Daley (E)
Directed by Richard Hughes
Lighting by Jessica James
Sound FX by Dan Branch
This piece was for AS Performing arts which went towards our final grades. The letters next to everybody's name is what each actor achieved for this performance.
DBC Pierre is the Booker prize winning author who wrote Vernon God Little. In this interview he talks about writing.
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Do you know the "Vernon dance"?
Vernon God Little
by DBC Pierre
Adapted by Tanya Ronder
Directed by Rufus Norris
http://www.youngvic.org/archive/vernon-god-little
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WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2003
WINNER OF THE 2003 WHITBREAD FIRST NOVEL PRIZE
Meet fifteen-year-old Vernon Gregory Little. Desperate times call for the most unlikely of heroes.
'Startling . . . explosive and extravagantly satisfying.' Guardian
'Dangerous, smart, ridiculous and very funny.' New York Times.
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Vernon God Little (2003) is a novel by DBC Pierre. It was his debut novel and won the Booker Prize in 2003. It has twice been adapted as a stage play.
Plot synopsis
The life of Vernon Little, a normal teenager who lives in Martirio, Texas, falls apart when his best friend, Jesus Navarro, murders their classmates in the schoolyard before killing himself, and Vernon is taken in for questioning. He cooperates with Deputy Vain Gurie, because he had been running an errand for a teacher, Mr. Nuckles, and is not involved in the massacre. The perception of Vernon's innocence weakens when his Mom's best friend, the food-obsessed Palmyra (Pam) arrives and, against Vernon's better judgment, whisks him off to Bar-B-Chew Barn, allowing the police to claim he is a flight risk. Eulalio ("Lally") Ledesma, supposedly a CNN reporter, ingratiates himself to Doris, Vernon's Mom, and promises to help Vernon "shift the paradigm" of his story. Instead, Lally betrays Vernon, who is returned to jail pending a psychiatric analysis.
What hooked me was a concept ... By way of salute, the boy in my novel Vernon God Little namechecks the play’s Studebaker as his life spins out of control. Meanwhile in DopamineCity is published by Faber ... ....