MIDSUMMER MISCHIEF 2014 PROGRAMME B

About the show

This series of four plays by female playwrights was performed at The Other Place in the summer of 2014. Inspired by the statement "Well-behaved women seldom make history", the plays followed on from the Swan Theatre's Roaring Girls season. 3. I Can Hear You by Ev Crowe Tommy is dead. It's always tragic when they die young. People have posted loads of nice stuff on his Facebook page and his family want to get his funeral just right. Proper cutlery and a good spread. The send-off he deserved, and certainly better than they managed when mum died. It should be the perfect way to say goodbye. Unfortunately not everyone is willing to let go. The following Sunday in the family house, the football is unceremoniously interrupted as the doorbell rings and in walks a still-very-much-dead Tommy. Crowe's play questions what happens when you take loved ones for granted and counsels that some things are better left unsaid. 4. This Is Not An Exit by Abi Zakarian You wake up tied to a radiator. You can't remember what you signed that keeps you here. Did you read the small print? Does anyone read the small print? Your hands are bound and there is a bag over your head. Your prison companion is familiar and yet a total mystery. Your jailers fluctuate between mild torture and care. You know you should fight but don't know how or against whom. In Abi Zakarian's new play, four women find themselves locked in struggle but paralysed by their own inaction as the inexorable and fatal cocktail hour draws near.