Description: An elegiac, emotionally charged and tragic account of the relationship between a social worker and a troubled mother.
Brief description: Chris Lee is an Irish playwright based in London. His plays plays include Hummingbird (1996), The Optimist's Daughter (1997), Eat the Enemy ( 1999), The Electrocution Of Children (1998) for which he won the Stewart Parker New Playwright Award, and The Map Maker's Sorrow (1999 ). In 1999 he was appointed Writer-in-Association with the Abbey Theatre. In 2000 he was awarded a Pearson New Playwright's Bursary for an attachment to the Finborough. Other notable plays: On Line & Paranoid in the Sentimental City (2000) and Vermilion Dream (2004).
Review Quotes:
"Rising playright Chris Lee." --Kate Bassett, Independent on Sunday
"The piece has an inbuilt tension, and there are strong passages of writing." --Lyn Gardner, Guardian "Voicing the unspeakable and illuminating the inexplicable.Dawn's deeply distressing closing speech prises your mind's eye open on a scene that must have been as hard for Lee to imagine as it is for us to forget." --Bella Todd, Time Out London "Lee's play, it's accomplished. It's authentic. It's a gritty gift to actors. He's evidently talented." --Dominic Cavendish, Daily Telegraph