Shed: Exploded View (NHB Modern Plays)
Phoebe Eclair-Powell
- 144 pages
- English
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Shed: Exploded View (NHB Modern Plays)
Phoebe Eclair-Powell
About This Book
The smallest tremble. A smashed glass. The ripping apart of space and time.Three couples. Thirty years. Mothers and daughters. Lovers, partners, husbands and wives. Babies, teenagers, birthdays, holidays, honeymoons, fireworks, near-misses, rain. This is a play about all of it.A devastating and delicately woven piece about violence, love and loss, Phoebe Eclair-Powell's Shed: Exploded View won the 2019 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting. Partly inspired by Cornelia Parker's stunning artwork Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View, it was first performed at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, in 2024, directed by Atri Banerjee.'A gritty and intensely moving account of domestic violenceā¦ it is honest, and raw, and left me in bits' - Telegraph'A formally ambitious exploration of love and violenceā¦ Shed: Exploded View shatters and reassembles time, leaving us to pick through the wreckageā¦ Eclair-Powell holds individual moments up to the light, inviting us to see the darkness thrown by seemingly trivial incidentsā¦ quietly devastating' - The Stage'Love, loss and horrific male violenceā¦ a play that is as subtle as it is unsettling' - Guardian