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small hours

small hours is an intimate dissection of the claustrophobic world of a new mother struggling to cope on her own.

  • Short Play
  • Drama

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

  • Performance Group:
  • Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups
A collaborative theatre piece created by playwrights Lucy Kirkwood and Ed Hime with theatre director Katie Mitchell, small hours is an intimate dissection of the claustrophobic world of a new mother struggling to cope on her own.

It was first performed at Hampstead Theatre in 2011.

small hours is available in the volume Lucy Kirkwood Plays: One.

REVIEWS:

"Theatre of the highest form of immersion and realism that I have experienced... It is breathtaking."

 A Younger Theatre

Premiere Production: Hampstead Theatre, London, 2011.
  • Casting: 1F
  • Casting Attributes: Good role(s) for female performers, All Female