While You Lie
- Full Length Play, Drama, Comedy, Contemporary
- 3M, 2F
- ISBN: 9781848421240
A blistering play about our need for honesty in relationships and how it can sometimes bring about their downfall.
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Description
- Full Length Play
- Drama, Comedy
- Time Period: Contemporary
- Target Audience: Adult
- Set Requirements: Bare Stage/Simple Set
- Performance Group:
- Community Theatre
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 deadly truthful world where honesty is celebrated in all of its dangerous glory. While for Helen – loving mother, homemaker, wife – beneath the civilised veneer of her life, a dark truth threatens to surface.
Sam Holcroft's play While You Lie was first performed at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, in July 2010.
REVIEWS:
Ana calls Edward's bluff on their disintegrating relationship and enters a deadly truthful world where honesty is celebrated in all of its dangerous glory. While for Helen – loving mother, homemaker, wife – beneath the civilised veneer of her life, a dark truth threatens to surface.
Sam Holcroft's play While You Lie was first performed at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, in July 2010.
REVIEWS:
"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."
The Guardian
Premiere Production:
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, 2010.
Characters
- Casting: 3M, 2F
