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T0783097268Producer Southwark Playhouse Young Company. Director Ellen Hughes. Director Emily Lim. Design Amy Penrose. Lighting Nicole Smith. Sound Sebastian Willan. | |
| 22 Apr 10 to 24 Apr 10 | Southwark Playhouse Borough, Inner London :: V226 listing details L0553521833 |
T0989707779Company Lyric Drama Studio. Director Anna Newell. Sound Justin Yang. Design Niall Rea. Director Stevie Pickett (moves). | |
| 14 Jan 10 to 15 Jan 10 | Lyric Theatre, Belfast :: V552 listing details L01720900756 |
Two young women arrive in a nameless British smalltown. Their names are not their own. They don't declare their ages. Their relationship with each other is not clear. Are they sisters, as their assumed identities declare? Or are they mother and daughter? The eldest, Claire, takes a job in a pub. The youngest, Eleanor, goes to school. During a truth exercise in her drama class, Eleanor confesses that she has been alive for over two hundred years and has survived by drinking human blood. Her classmates think she is utterly crazy and Mint, her teacher, puts her in touch with the school counsellor. She makes one friend, Frank, a boy who has been home educated and is as much of an oddity as Eleanor. He tries to get to the bottom of her vampire delusion, thinking it an epic and compelling psychosis. Why would anyone want to be undead? Frank's parents believe that Eleanor is an anorexic - why does she never eat? Eleanor has started to write her life story as a play. She describes Claire's background as a prostitute in 19th century London and her own as a child in a private orphanage. Meanwhile, things are falling apart. People are disappearing. Are Eleanor and Claire vampires? Or are they troubled young women on the run?
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