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Swallow
Stef Smith
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Description for Swallow
Paperback. A painful yet playful play that takes a long, hard look at the extremes of everyday life. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 197 x 15. Weight in Grams: 80.
‘Who said smashing things up was a bad thing?’
Three strangers are about to face their demons head on. Balanced precariously on the tipping point, they might just be able to save one another – if they can only overcome their urge to self-destruct.
Passionate, painful and playful, Stef Smith’s Swallow takes a long, hard look at the extremes of everyday life. The play premiered at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, as part of the 2015 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where it received a Scotsman Fringe First Award. It was directed by Traverse Artistic Director Orla O’Loughlin, and featured original ... Read more
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Publisher
Nick Hern Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848425064
SKU
V9781848425064
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Ref
99-2
About Stef Smith
Stef Smith studied Drama and Theatre Arts at Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh. She supplied the text for the critically acclaimed and sell out show RoadKill (Edinburgh Festival 2010, 2011) which won an Olivier Award in 2012. Other plays include: Swallow (Traverse Theatre 2015), Remote (National Theatre Connections 2015), CURED (Glasgay!), Grey Matter (Aberdeen Performing Arts), Falling/Flying ... Read more
Reviews for Swallow
'An elegant and glowing piece of 21st-century magic realism… [a] rich mix of drama and poetry, comedy and tragedy'
Scotsman
'[A] bloody great bruise of a play which borrows, magpie-like, from Sarah Kane but which is always distinctively itself. It has a shard-like lyricism that tears through the heart. It finds the comic in the tragic... a shattering ... Read more
Scotsman
'[A] bloody great bruise of a play which borrows, magpie-like, from Sarah Kane but which is always distinctively itself. It has a shard-like lyricism that tears through the heart. It finds the comic in the tragic... a shattering ... Read more