While You Lie by Sam Holcroft
A blistering play about our need for honesty in relationships and how it can sometimes bring about their downfall. Ana calls Edward's bluff on their disintegrating relationship and enters a truthful world where honesty is celebrated in all of its dangerous glory. While for Helen, a homemaker, beneath the civilized veneer of her life, a dark truth threatens to surface.'When I say that this is a deeply unpleasant play I mean it as high praise'
* Financial Times *'Sam Holcroft is the real thing, a major play-writing talent'
* Guardian *
Sam Holcroft is a playwright, winner of the Windham Campbell Prize for Literature. Her plays include: A Mirror (Almeida Theatre, London, 2023; West End, 2024); Rules for Living (National Theatre, London, 2015); The Wardrobe for National Theatre Connections; Edgar & Annabel, part of the Double Feature season in the Paintframe at the National Theatre; Dancing Bears, part of the Charged season for Clean Break at Soho Theatre and Latitude Festival; While You Lie at the Traverse, Edinburgh; Pink, part of the Women, Power and Politics season at the Tricycle; Vanya, adapted from Chekhov, at The Gate; and Cockroach, co-produced by the National Theatre of Scotland and Traverse (nominated for Best New Play 2008, by the Critics’ Awards for Theatre in Scotland and shortlisted for the John Whiting Award, 2009). In 2013, she wrote The House Taken Over, a libretto for opera, adapted from Cortázar, for the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence and Académie Européenne de Musique. She received the Tom Erhardt Award in 2009, was the Pearson Writer-in-Residence at the Traverse Theatre, 2009–10, and the Writer-in-Residence at the National Theatre Studio from 2013–14. In 2014, she received a Windham Campbell Prize for Literature in the drama category.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781848421240 |
| ISBN 10 | 1848421249 |
| Title | While You Lie |
| Author | Sam Holcroft |
| Series | Nhb Modern Plays |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Nick Hern Books |
| Year published | 2010-08-05 |
| Number of pages | 96 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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