Curious

by Jasmine Lee-Jones

Being a woman is blood and guts It’s intestine Fuck florals and ballgowns It’s balls It’s livers and kidneys and puke and mucus Ripping and tearing and shredding Red stain on linen bedding It’s shedding Jaz is in her second year at drama school. Jaz is tired of performing. Hence her conundrum. But when she stumbles across a piece of forgotten history – her life is changed forever… What does it mean to find yourself? Especially when it seems the world you live in is diametrically set against you doing just that? Set against the sprawling backdrop of urban London across centuries, curious is a frank, funny and moving excavation of the lives of two actresses who are young, Black, queer and trying to find out who they are. It is written and performed by Jasmine Lee-Jones, the winner of Evening Standard Award 2019 and Critics’ Circle Theatre Award for Most Promising Playwright for her play seven methods of killing kylie jenner.

Genres: Plays

120 pages, Paperback

First published October 7, 2021

Reviews

[Doug · Rating 4 out of 5]

As with Lee-Jones breakthrough play Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner, I had a bit of a problem here and there with Black and British slang that I am unfamiliar with, but that didn't really impede my enjoyment of this autobiographical one woman show, which Lee-Jones performed herself.

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[Sarah · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was PHENOMENAL. Unique and honest and creative and beautiful in so many ways. Highly recommend.

[Theo Chen · Rating 4 out of 5]

- splotches / blacked out text
- the rise of the one woman tell all
- revisionist/the archives
- why does everyone have such shitty friends lol