A tender depiction of a young mother's inability to cope with separation from her daughter.
This play was originally published in the volume Charged, a collection of plays about the lives of women in the criminal justice system, and was commissioned and premiered by , a theatre and education company working with women whose lives have been affected by the criminal justice system.
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Chloë Moss's first play, A Day in Dull Armour won the Royal Court Young Writers Festival in 2002. Other plays include: The Gatekeeper (Royal Exchange Theatre, 2012); Frankenstein Live (Kirkstall Abbey, filmed and broadcast by BBC3, 2011); This Wide Night (Clean Break/Soho Theatre, 2008 and Lucille Lortel Theatre, 2010; winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize); The Way Home (Liverpool Everyman, 2006); Christmas is Miles Away (Manchester Royal Exchange/Bush, 2005); How Love is Spelt (Bush Theatre, 2004 and Summer Play Festival, New York, 2005; special commendation by the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize).