SWALLOW

Original titleSWALLOW
CategoryPlay
AgegroupAdults
Cast3 total (3 F)
Variable cast sizeNo
RepresentationNordic representation
Anna has not left her apartment in several months. She does not eat anymore and she is smashing the apartment piece by piece. Rebecca’s ex-partner has found another girlfriend. Now Rebecca is so angry that she turns the anger against herself and is about to drown her sorrows in alcohol. Samantha fights to become Sam – she feels like a man inside. These individual lives are gathered in a weave of relationships, and the scratches these women get are developing into an open and bloody wound. It is tempting to think of Sarah Kane; but this text is entirely its own with poetry almost like shards of glass, which cuts through your heart with a poetic precision. The Olivier Award winning Stef Smith finds the comic in the tragic and provides a remarkable good text with great challenges for three women.