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Gut
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An explosive exploration of violence, desire, and passion.
For audiences who crave intense, raw emotional power.
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About the Ebook
'I know my boy. I'd know if something had happened to him.'
Maddy and Rory are devoted parents to three-year-old Joshua, committed to keeping him happy and safe. But when an everyday visit to a supermarket café turns into a far more troubling incident, their trust in those closest to them is shattered.
Gut is a taut psychological thriller that asks: who can be trusted with our children – and is it more dangerous not to trust at all?
Gut was first produced at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, in association with the National Theatre of Scotland, in 2018. It was directed by Zinnie Harris.
It went on to win Best Play at the 2019 Writers' Guild Awards.
Reviews
'A vision of a society where hypervigilance has replaced trust, where the gap between sensible parental oversight and pathological control is frighteningly small... holds the audience spellbound... exposes a fault line of social dysfunction with a relentless and transfixing logic' Guardian
'Picks at the psychological sores of a post-Yewtree climate... takes leaps out of the ordinary to illustrate the extremes a mother's love sometimes must endure'
Herald
'Accurately pinpoints parental fears and explores them with innard-wrenching effect' The Stage
Why You'll Love This Ebook
- Intense examination of primal human impulses.
- Bold and uncompromising theatrical vision.
- Published by Nick Hern Books, leading contemporary theatre publisher.
- Theatre that tears you apart.
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: 19 April 2018
Print Length: 88 pages (Ebook edition)
ISBN (Ebook): 9781788500425
Format: Ebook
Language: English
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