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Stitching

Anthony Neilson author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:12th Sep '02

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Stitching cover

Anthony Neilson was shortlisted for the "Evening Standard" Award for Most Promising Playwright 2002.

In the light of a pregnancy, a faithless couple pick apart their relationship, stitch by painful stitch. Can it be mended? This dark and intimate play is a love story set at the extremes of brutality, banality and tenderness.We will fix it. We will mend it...In the light of a pregnancy, a faithless couple pick apart their relationship, stitch by painful stitch. Can it be mended? Anthony Neilson's dark and intimate new play is a love story set at the extremes of brutality, banality and tenderness. Stitching opened at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, on 2 August 2002 and transferred to the Bush Theatre, London, on 12 September 2002."Explodes with power, discipline, integrity and sheer cruel psychological accuracy ...Neilson's writing has a terrible beauty" Sunday Times "Startlingly rich and challenging, Neilson depicts with aching precision a relationship in which love is undermined by distrust" Time Out "Shattering, shocking...a serious, persuasive account of the blind alleys love can lead us down" Daily Telegraph "A characteristically brave and brutal offering" Independent "A deeply mesmerising, if shocking, experience as a couple smashes through taboo after taboo in a harrowing sexual tug of war" Evening Standard

ISBN: 9780413772930

Dimensions: 200mm x 130mm x 4mm

Weight: 105g

80 pages