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A Breakfast of Eels

  • Robert Holman
  • Full Length Play, Drama, Contemporary
  • 2M
  • ISBN: 9781848424777

"Intensely absorbing... hushed and unhurried, sensitive and beautiful."

The Times

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama

  • Time Period: Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Bare Stage/Simple Set

  • Performance Group:
  • College Theatre / Student, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, Professional Theatre

  • Accolades:
  • Winner! The Offies Award for Best New Play (2016)
In the haze of a late summer in a London garden, the apples have all fallen to the ground. It is the day of Daddy's funeral, and two orphans find themselves suddenly alone, with nobody to cling to but each other.

Robert Holman's play A Breakfast of Eels was premiered at the Print Room at the Coronet, London, in March 2015. It won Best New Play at The Offies (the annual awards for Off-West End theatre) in 2016.

REVIEWS:

"Intensely absorbing... hushed and unhurried, sensitive and beautiful."

 The Times

"A precise and subtle picture of a family crisis."

 The Guardian

"Profound and humane."

 WhatsOnStage

"Immensely satisfying... Robert Holman's play swells, pregnant with meaning and guarded, overcast silences, before breaking into beautiful, painful torrents."

 Time Out

"A compassionate and probing piece."

 Evening Standard

"Elusive, beautiful and incredibly moving."

 The Stage

Premiere Production: Print Room at the Coronet, London, 2015.
  • Casting: 2M
  • Casting Attributes: All Male

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In the haze of a late summer in a London garden, the apples have all fallen to the ground. It is the day of Daddy's funeral, and two orphans find themselves suddenly alone, with nobody to cling to but each other.

Robert Holman's play A Breakfast of Eels was premiered at the Print Room at the Coronet, London, in March 2015. It won Best New Play at The Offies (the annual awards for Off-West End theatre) in 2016.

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