The first collection of plays from Olivier-nominated playwright Isley
Lynn, whose award-winning work uplifts their deeply human characters
through stories that are unexpected, radically intimate, and
profoundly theatrical. Lean (2013): "It's not just powerful but it's
incandescent. There is a profound intensity... that truly keeps you on
the edge of your seat the whole way through. Sensitively written...
Exemplary theatre at its best." The London Stage Skin A Cat (2016):
"Frequently hilarious, it's also refreshingly honest and open in its
discussion of menstruation, masturbation, oral and anal sex, and might
well be the smartest, sharpest piece about female sexual identity
since Phoebe Waller Bridge's Fleabag... this is bold and genuinely
exciting new writing." The Stage albatross (2021): "Every intimate,
individual scene is engaging, as the full-bodied characters knock up
against their own judgments and histories... Lynn's scenes are full of
genuine connections between characters, and the hope that comes with
change." Guardian The Swell (2023): "Isley Lynn's characters are
nuanced and beautifully drawn, and the play's dialogue is gorgeously
natural and flowing. Where the playwright really excels though, is in
bold and unexpected choices. The Swell takes its audience on some
hugely gripping twists and turns. Lynn's writing is genuinely
exciting." Evening Standard Isley won the Charles Wintour Most
Promising Playwright Award at the 2023 Evening Standard Theatre Awards
for The Swell, which was also nominated for Outstanding Achievement In
An Affiliate Theatre at the 2024 Olivier Awards, as well as Best New
Play, Best Director, and Best Production at the 2023 Off West End
awards. Skin A Cat was awarded Pick Of The Year at Vault Festival 2016
and nominated for four Off West End Awards (Most Promising New
Playwright - shortlist, Best New Play, Best Lead Female, Best
Director) for its transfer as inaugural production at The Bunker,
2016, before touring nationally throughout 2018. Isley was the 2014
Script6 winner at The Space with Bright Nights, they received Special
Commendation from the 2012 Soho Young Writers Award for Lomography,
and they were twice named Champion of Literary Death Match (Norfolk
and Norwich Festival, The Book Club London).
Les mer
Lean; Skin A Cat; albatross; The Swell
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781350504530
Publisert
2024
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Vendor
Methuen Drama
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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