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Godchild
A sharp, dark comedy that explores the inescapable difference between feeling 19 and being 19.
Lou is getting on with her life, carefree and without ties. But this abruptly comes to a halt when her 19 year old god-daughter Minnie moves in to take up a place at university. Minnie’s arrival shines a harsh light into the corners of Lou’s life – revealing it to be not as it seems. Her relationships are complicated, her neighbors are closing in on her, and the clock is ticking. What does it mean to be a grown up?
Godchild premiered at the Hampstead Theatre in October 2013, directed by Michael Attenborough.
Deborah Bruce is a writer and theatre director. As a director, her credits include Scarborough (Royal Court), Helen (Shakespeare's Globe) and Blame (Arcola Theatre). Her play The Distance was nomnated for the 2012 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.
Lou is getting on with her life, carefree and without ties. But this abruptly comes to a halt when her 19 year old god-daughter Minnie moves in to take up a place at university. Minnie’s arrival shines a harsh light into the corners of Lou’s life – revealing it to be not as it seems. Her relationships are complicated, her neighbors are closing in on her, and the clock is ticking. What does it mean to be a grown up?
Godchild premiered at the Hampstead Theatre in October 2013, directed by Michael Attenborough.
Deborah Bruce is a writer and theatre director. As a director, her credits include Scarborough (Royal Court), Helen (Shakespeare's Globe) and Blame (Arcola Theatre). Her play The Distance was nomnated for the 2012 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.
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96 pages, Paperback
First published October 31, 2013
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January 10, 2022
3.5, rounded up.
Bruce's debut play treads fairly conventional material, and Lou, the central character, is almost as irritating as she is entertaining (one review compared her to Ab Fab's Edina, which is an apt description). If it never quite goes anywhere than one would expect, it's still a solid, well-made play, and with the right actors, all four characters have winning moments - and I liked it much more than Bruce's subsequent offering The House They Grew Up In .
Bruce's debut play treads fairly conventional material, and Lou, the central character, is almost as irritating as she is entertaining (one review compared her to Ab Fab's Edina, which is an apt description). If it never quite goes anywhere than one would expect, it's still a solid, well-made play, and with the right actors, all four characters have winning moments - and I liked it much more than Bruce's subsequent offering The House They Grew Up In .
March 7, 2022
started very strongly, well-made, entertaining. not sure about the outcome
February 16, 2024
I enjoyed the play, was only towards the end that I realised the parallels between the characters. Would be interesting to see on stage.
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