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Even Stillness Breathes Softly Against a Brick Wall
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Description
“I believe in this. I believe in here. Me and you.”
Everyday life, is it nothing but a series of creeping, soul-destroying disillusionments and compromises? This young couple start to think so, falling further and further into a lyrical, wild and emotional world of their own, but their escape could prove much more dangerous than the conformity they've rejected.
Combining shrewd observation of the toils of daily living, with a keen and lyrical style, Even Stillness Breathes Softly Against a Brick Wall by exciting young playwright Brad Birch is sure to inspire and delight audiences and readers alike.
Product details

Published | Jul 28 2013 |
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Format | Paperback |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 96 |
ISBN | 9781472507099 |
Imprint | Methuen Drama |
Dimensions | 198 x 129 mm |
Series | Modern Plays |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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A riff on the idea of life being a series of reassuringly familiar, yet despairingly empty actions . . . Birch's play is a fluid poem, meandering through repetitive days, rolling through thoughts and speeches with a nicely judged turn of phrase
Daisy Bowie-Sell, Time Out
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A play of strong poetic feeling ... the play has a strong sense of claustrophobia and the idea that consumer society results in a living death, with all of us sleepwalking towards the grave, runs through the events like a slash of red lipstick ... there is a subversive joy in its gestures of anger, and some of its stage images linger to haunt the imagination - just like its title.
Aleks Sierz, Arts Desk