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When she was little, she was so happy. I know everyone says that. I do.

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Fri 11 Oct - Sat 30 Nov, 2.30pm & 7.30pm

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Alice Birch’s play (which contains 100 different scenes of which 22 are performed in this production) is a thing of intricate grace, bold in concept and tender in execution. With a kitchen at its centre it is as if cocking a snook at that silly and lazy old idea that when women explore their lives and relationships on stage the result must be purely domestic and tell us nothing wider about society and the public realm. [Blank] is very definitely about the way we live now and how the personal and the political are deeply entwined. It might be read as both a manifesto for change and yet also a document of how hard it is to make change. Damage is passed from one generation to the next. The brilliance of this patchwork evening both in the writing and in Maria Alberg’s liquid production is the way each play melts and frays into the next, and how one scene near the beginning is suddenly illuminated or your perspective shifted by something you see later.
"Layered, powerful and devastating" is the verdict of the critics for the Donmar's production, created by Clean Break - a company dedicated to making theatre that tells the stories of incarcerated women.

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She can’t stay awake. She sold drugs. She’s good at interrogations. She drinks in the mornings. She ate a rabbit. She smashed up a shop. She stabbed a man. She used a hammer. She had a baby. She can’t find her mother. She’s covered in blood and doesn’t know why. This striking new play from Alice Birch, directed by Maria Aberg, takes a kaleidoscopic view of what happens when a woman goes to prison. [BLANK] receives its full-length premiere to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Clean Break, the leading theatre company working with women affected by the criminal justice system.