A painfully truthful, darkly comic take on contemporary life and how to survive it.
A chance encounter at a conference hotel plays upon Kitty's mind as she struggles to balance personal freedom with family life, fidelity and a testing job. Her husband seems more interested in misplaced apostrophes than his marriage, her parents are looking down the barrel of oblivion and, although she might toy with joining a gym, Kitty's running out of time for big changes.
'the best new play to have arrived on a British stage for at least a year... unsparing observation, baleful humour and underlying compassion... a richly rewarding gem of a play' - Telegraph
'wonderfully funny and painfully accurate... hits nail after nail on the head' - Independent
'Everything about the play rings with a horrible truth, and the writing is consistently funny and flecked with pain' - Whatsonstage.com
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Lucinda Coxon's work has been produced at The Bush Theatre, Soho Theatre and the National Theatre in London, and at South Coast Repertory, the Magic Theatre and the Ohio Theatre Space NY in the US. Her plays include Waiting at the Water's Edge, Wishbones, Three Graces, The Ice Palace, Nostalgia, Vesuvius and a translation of Lorca's The Shoemaker's Incredible Wife. Her film work includes Spaghetti Slow and The Heart of Me.