A modern feminist classic - a fiercely original parable of modern materialism.
An angrily impoverished waitress and a philosophical ceramics teacher in the early stages of multiple sclerosis share a borrowed, run-down seaside apartment for the weekend. Visitors include the shopaholic wife of the landlord, a drunken misfit and two spectral intruders: Pest, a bad memory; and Luggage, the Patron Saint of Heavy Burdens.
Clare McIntyre's play My Heart's a Suitcase was first staged at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in February 1990. It won her the Evening Standard and Critics' Circle awards for Most Promising Playwright.
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The Maths Tutor was Clare McIntyre's first play for the Hampstead Theatre. She had several plays staged at the Royal Court Theatre, London: Low Level Panic, 1989, My Heart's a Suitcase, 1990 and The Thickness of Skin, 1996. She won the Evening Standard and London Drama Critics Awards for Most Promising Playwright for My Heart's a Suitcase and the Samuel Beckett Award for Low Level Panic, which was produced by the Royal Court Theatre around the world; in Australia, Ireland, Italy and the United States. Other work for the theatre includes The Changeling for Graeae Theatre Company at Sadler's Wells, No Warning for Life (Women's Playhouse Trust) and I've Been Running (Old Red Lion Theatre).
Television and film work includes: EastEnders, Hungry Hearts, Low Level Panic, Castles, My Heart's a Suitcase, Junk Mail and Hi How are You. Radio includes: Noisy Bodies, Shelf Life, The Art of Sitting, Walls of Silence and I've Been Running. She also had an extensive career as an actress in theatre, film and television. She died of multiple sclerosis on 27 November 2009.
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The play that won Clare McIntyre the Evening Standard and Critics Circle awards for Most Promising Playwright.
'an unsentimental but sympathetic portrayal of women trying to make sense of their place in a threatening and intrusive world.' David Edgar, The Guardian
'a fiercely modern parable of modern materialism - set in a grand, empty seaside flat, where two friends are spending the weekend' - Financial Times
'sits firmly in the honourably incensed and censorious tradition of Look Back in Anger. It could prove to be just as significant' - Observer