Fibres

A visceral examination of connection and disconnection.

For audiences seeking experimental, visceral theatre.

About the Ebook

'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.

Reviews

'Heartbreaking and unsentimental... a condemnation of an atrocious wrong and a hymn of praise to a marriage' Observer

'A cleverly constructed and damning indictment of workers' exposure to asbestos'
The Stage

'An intriguing hybrid of social commentary, sit-com and ghost play' Herald

'Devastating... a tragic story that is beautifully told' Broadway World

Why You'll Love This Ebook

• Bold exploration of human connection and fragmentation.
• Challenging formal theatrical innovation.
• Published by Nick Hern Books, leading contemporary theatre publisher.
• Theatre that pushes boundaries.

About the Author

Frances Poet is a Glasgow-based writer. Her stage work includes: Still (Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, 2021); Maggie May (Leeds Playhouse, Leicester Curve & Queen's Theatre Hornchurch co-production, 2020); Fibres (Stellar Quines & Glasgow Citizens Theatre, 2019); Gut (Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, 2018); Adam (National Theatre of Scotland at the Traverse Theatre, 2017); Faith Fall (Òran Mór and Bristol’s Tobacco Factory, 2012) and What Put the Blood (Abbey Theatre, 2017). She has also written a number of free adaptations including Strindberg's Dance of Death (Citizens Theatre, 2016) and Molière's The Misanthrope (Òran Mór, 2014).

Her TV and radio work includes River City and The Disappointed, aired on BBC Radio Scotland in 2015. Her short film, Spores, screened at the Edinburgh Film Festival and Bogoshorts Festival, Bogotá, in 2016.

Publication Details

Publisher: Nick Hern Books

Publication Date: 17 October 2019

Print Length: 56 pages (Ebook edition)

ISBN (Ebook): 9781788502726

Format: Ebook

Language: English

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