Fibres E-Book

Frances Poet

• Herausgeber: Nick Hern Books
• Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2019

Beschreibung

'We were two weans playing at wee hooses… Now we're both paying the price.' Jack is proud of his work at the Clyde shipyards. His wife, Beanie, who is nursing him through asbestosis, thinks he's a fool. But the real test of their marriage comes when they discover that the dusty overalls Jack brought home for Beanie to wash have poisoned her too. Meanwhile their daughter, Lucy, is struggling; will she be held back by her parents' experience, or will she have the courage to allow romance to blossom with Pete? Frances Poet's play Fibres is a big-hearted, hilarious drama about what it means to entwine our lives with another. A story told by four resilient, witty Glaswegian characters, the play asks can we ever cut the cords that bind us – and who will catch us if we do? The play toured Scotland in 2019, in a co-production between Stellar Quines Theatre Company and the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow.

Leseprobe

Frances Poet

FIBRES

NICK HERN BOOKS

London

www.nickhernbooks.co.uk

Contents

Original Production

Acknowledgements

Dedication

Characters

Fibres

About the Author

Copyright and Performing Rights Information

A Stellar Quines and Citizens Theatre co-production, Fibres was first performed on 17 October 2019 at Barrowfield Community Centre. The cast was as follows:

BEANIE

Maureen Carr

PETE

Ali Craig

LUCY

Suzanne Magowan

JACK

Jonathan Watson

Director

Jemima Levick

Set and Costume Designer

Jen McGinley

Lighting Designer

Emma Jones

Sound Designer

Patricia Panther

Assistant Director

Louise Shephard

Acknowledgements

Thank you to Fiona and all the team at Playwrights Studio Scotland for the New Writing Award, without which this play might not exist, to Chris Hannan who mentored me with a gentle excellence and rigour, and beautiful Cove Park, where I wrote the first draft while Oma and Grandpa took care of the kids.

For their input and support thanks to Morven McElroy, Ron Donachie, Ryan Fletcher, Barbara Rafferty, Ashley Smith, Jen McGinley, Gary McNair, Andrew Rosthorn and Benjamin Hannavy Cousen.

My family (Richard, Peter, Elizabeth and Mimi) – I couldn’t do it without you. Giving thanks too for my granddad, Richard Rosthorn, who ‘plight his troth’ to the wonderful Annie Whitaker and embarked on a sixty-year long happy marriage.

Thanks to the lovely Nick Hern and eagle-eyed Sarah Liisa Wilkinson.

Huge thanks to the team who have worked to get the play on stage: the brilliant staff of the Citz and Stella Quines, Dominic Hill who championed the play, shaped and improved it, the exceptionally talented Maureen Carr, Ali Craig, Suzanne Magowan and Jonathan Watson and my dear friend, Jemima Levick, who has brought the play to life with such skill and sensitivity – thanks, pal.

All of this starts with Eli Poland, who told me about her beloved mum and dad who she lost too soon. I never met them but they have fuelled the love, pain and anger carried in this play. Remembering them now…

Elizabeth and Ian Higgins Macleod.

F.P

For Richard.

This one’s for you, baby.