What do you think?
Rate this book
Overshadowed
Imogene used to be sparkly, vivacious and outgoing. She used to fancy lads, have curves and love chips. Recently however she has become withdrawn, gaunt, obsessed with exercise. The reason? Caol, her new best friend, who's cast a dark shadow over Imogene's life.
Invisible to everyone except Imogene, Caol will not rest until Imogene has been reduced both emotionally and physically to a shadow of her former self.
Combining sharp writing and incredible physicality this piece aims to provoke compassion and debate around the subject of eating disorders, by separating the sufferer from the condition.
Overshadowed premiered at the Tiger Dublin Fringe festival in September 2015 where it won the Fishamble New Writing Award. This programme text was published to coincide with revivals at the Project Arts Centre Dublin and Theatre503, London, in January 2016.
Invisible to everyone except Imogene, Caol will not rest until Imogene has been reduced both emotionally and physically to a shadow of her former self.
Combining sharp writing and incredible physicality this piece aims to provoke compassion and debate around the subject of eating disorders, by separating the sufferer from the condition.
Overshadowed premiered at the Tiger Dublin Fringe festival in September 2015 where it won the Fishamble New Writing Award. This programme text was published to coincide with revivals at the Project Arts Centre Dublin and Theatre503, London, in January 2016.
- GenresPlays
64 pages, Paperback
First published January 27, 2016
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 - 2 of 2 reviews
March 20, 2024
Overshadowed is a short play chronicling one girl's experience with an eating disorder, which has a voice and a role of its own in the play. What's most interesting to me about this is that I watched the BBC adaptation (available on YouTube) before I read this script. I routinely wonder, when reading plays, how something might actually look on the stage (or, in this case, on the small screen), so it's kind of fascinating to see the differences.
The BBC adaptation is truly that: an adaptation. In the script, Caol (a personification of anorexia) skulks around, snapping out her lines in questionable rhyme; there's really no question that she's something other than a regular character. In the BBC adaptation, not only does the whole story take on a different context (Imogene as a YouTuber and the episodes her vlogs), but Caol is brought in as a full character, and it's meant to take some time before the viewer understands that she's not a person but a personification.
I enjoyed the adaptation more than the original, although it's worth noting that the adaptation is made for YouTube and would be very hard to stage—there are advantages to playing with your format and intended audience! As ever, it would also be interesting to see this staged as written.
The BBC adaptation is truly that: an adaptation. In the script, Caol (a personification of anorexia) skulks around, snapping out her lines in questionable rhyme; there's really no question that she's something other than a regular character. In the BBC adaptation, not only does the whole story take on a different context (Imogene as a YouTuber and the episodes her vlogs), but Caol is brought in as a full character, and it's meant to take some time before the viewer understands that she's not a person but a personification.
I enjoyed the adaptation more than the original, although it's worth noting that the adaptation is made for YouTube and would be very hard to stage—there are advantages to playing with your format and intended audience! As ever, it would also be interesting to see this staged as written.
Read
October 13, 2017Loved the miniseries on YouTube
Displaying 1 - 2 of 2 reviews