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What I'm asking is, is she a sympathetic heroine? Are we
going to be on her side?
Elaine, a once-famous actress who disappeared thirty years ago in mysterious circumstances, is ready to tell her story. She summons Kate, a young film executive, to her remote Cornish home to assist with her glorious comeback. But to keep control of the story, and how they tell it, the women must fight against a rising tide.
Winner of the Holyer an Gof Award, Drama, for books that add to the knowledge, enjoyment and appreciation of Cornish life, literature or culture.
Penelope Skinner's passionate, searingly funny play opened at the Harold Pinter Theatre, London, in October 2023.
'Fascinating . . . Skinner's writing is incisive and startlingly funny.'Independent
Elaine, a once-famous actress who disappeared thirty years ago in mysterious circumstances, is ready to tell her story. She summons Kate, a young film executive, to her remote Cornish home to assist with her glorious comeback. But to keep control of the story, and how they tell it, the women must fight against a rising tide.
Winner of the Holyer an Gof Award, Drama, for books that add to the knowledge, enjoyment and appreciation of Cornish life, literature or culture.
Penelope Skinner's passionate, searingly funny play opened at the Harold Pinter Theatre, London, in October 2023.
'Fascinating . . . Skinner's writing is incisive and startlingly funny.'Independent
- GenresPlays
146 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 9, 2023
About the author
Penelope Skinner
18 books9 followersPenelope Skinner is a British playwright who came to prominence after her play Fucked was first produced in 2008 at the Old Red Lion Theatre and the Edinburgh Festival to huge critical acclaim and has had successive plays staged in London including at the Bush Theatre, National Theatre and Royal Court Theatre, where she is a member of the Young Writers Programme.
Her play Eigengrau staged at the Bush Theatre in 2010 was a critical and box office hit and Skinner was nominated for the Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright in 2010. Eigengrau was revived at the Fitzpatrick Hall theatre in Cambridge in March 2012.
Skinner's play The Village Bike was her first play to be staged at the Royal Court Theatre where it had a sell out, twice-extended run starring Romola Garai and directed by Joe Hill-Gibbins, winning her the George Devine Award and the Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright in 2011.
In 2011 she wrote episodes for the Channel 4 series Fresh Meat. In 2011, her play The Sound of Heavy Rain was produced in Sheffield Theatres before going on tour sponsored by Paines Plough.
Her play Fred's Diner was staged at the Chichester Festival Theatre's pop-up stage, following which The Independent newspaper described Skinner as "Our leading young feminist writer."
In 2013 Skinner co-wrote the screenplay for the film How I Live Now.
- Wikipedia
See also: her sister, Ginny Skinner with whom she wrote the graphic novel Briony Hatch.
Her play Eigengrau staged at the Bush Theatre in 2010 was a critical and box office hit and Skinner was nominated for the Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright in 2010. Eigengrau was revived at the Fitzpatrick Hall theatre in Cambridge in March 2012.
Skinner's play The Village Bike was her first play to be staged at the Royal Court Theatre where it had a sell out, twice-extended run starring Romola Garai and directed by Joe Hill-Gibbins, winning her the George Devine Award and the Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright in 2011.
In 2011 she wrote episodes for the Channel 4 series Fresh Meat. In 2011, her play The Sound of Heavy Rain was produced in Sheffield Theatres before going on tour sponsored by Paines Plough.
Her play Fred's Diner was staged at the Chichester Festival Theatre's pop-up stage, following which The Independent newspaper described Skinner as "Our leading young feminist writer."
In 2013 Skinner co-wrote the screenplay for the film How I Live Now.
- Wikipedia
See also: her sister, Ginny Skinner with whom she wrote the graphic novel Briony Hatch.
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December 26, 2023
Surprising, remarquable and haunting
January 4, 2025
It was good but a little boring sometimes. I also hate an unhappy ending
April 28, 2025
A promising premise but without enough depth of character. The plot also seems forced, with no weight of power behind it. The message has been given far more weight than the story itself.
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