Thick As Thieves

by Katherine Chandler

Two women from very different Karen has built a picture-perfect life while Gail struggles to keep hers together. When Gail re-enters Karen's life from out of the blue, she brings with her everything Karen has been running from… Katherine Chandler's tense, revealing play explores what it means to care for one another and asks who, in a time of increasing disconnect, we expect to look after us. Thick as Thieves was premiered at Theatr Clwyd, Mold, in October 2018, in a co-production between Clean Break and Theatr Clwyd. Acclaimed theatre company Clean Break produces ground-breaking plays with women writers and actors at the heart of its work. Founded in 1979 by two women prisoners who needed urgently to tell their stories through theatre, the company today has an independent education programme delivering theatre opportunities to women offenders and women at risk, in custodial and community settings.

Genres: Plays

95 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 11, 2018

Reviews

[Doug · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5, rounded down.

My third Chandler play, and though this was the most proficient of them, so far, it still doesn't quite cut it. A tense two hander, it circles around the same incident over and over and becomes a bit monotonous/repetitious. Could have used some judicious editing and been made into a crisp shorter play.

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[Paul Wilson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Just builds and builds in tension. Really powerful two-parter. Give it a try.