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Donmar Warehouse · 11 OCT - 30 NOV
When she was little, she was so happy. I know everyone says that. I do.
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Overview
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.
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Critic reviews
A lot of the creative energy has gone into the experimental form of the play, leaving little thought for the content
Delicious provocation from one of our most exciting playwrights
Layered, powerful piece of work about women and the criminal justice system
This is a rich, devastating production that offers both a fine-grained portrayal of human relationships and a timely reminder of the cruel impact of incarceration on women
Alice Birch’s mesmerising modular play has been assembled into a bleak odyssey through a series of women’s pain
Written with exquisite precision
The playwright throws down the gauntlet to directors, and the result is a show full of ideas but lacking unity
It is this process of selection, and the text’s structural malleability, that both lends the evening its cumulative power and makes it frustratingly uneven
[BLANK] is an intriguing and intense two hours
A potent, devastating exploration of the criminal justice system
A gut-punching piece of theatre
Alice Birch’s [Blank] is a thing of intricate grace, bold in concept and tender in execution