How to Hold Your Breath

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Refusing to give in to his demands, she embarks on a (mis)adventure with her sister Jasmine across a collapsing Europe in an attempt to cross to safety and the promise of a job in Africa. Who’s in it?

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Alongside her original plays, Zinnie Harris has adapted and reworked a number of plays from the western dramatic canon revising female characters from those plays for a more contemporary and sympathetic eye. [2] The story begins with a sexual encounter between customer relations executive Dana (Maxine Peake) and Jarron (Michael Shaeffer), who claims to be a demon. Read about the Faber story, find out about our unique partnerships, and learn more about our publishing heritage, awards and present-day activity.

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Amnesty award goes to Edinburgh fringe plays Sold and The Wheel". The Guardian. Press Association. 2011-08-25 . Retrieved 2018-10-15. StephensSimon There are some plays which have moments in that, in a totally thrilling way, you wish you’d written. How To Hold Your Breath had handfuls.

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Being European Becomes a Sin: Zinnie Harris’ How to Hold Your Breath as a Modern Morality Play | European Review | Cambridge CoreTopsy-turvy life … Maxine Peake and Peter Forbes in How to Hold Your Breath. Photograph: Tristram Kenton With impressive artistry, Harris uses a seemingly innocent encounter to wrench upon concepts of modern day morality. Ideas on immigration are turned on their head, as the characters look for aid and support from countries south of Europe. In a similar vein to Harris' previous Royal Court production, N ightingale and Chase, women are at the heart of her story with Dana and Jasmine as representatives for generations of forgotten voices. Throughout the unfolding horror of their journey sharp wit sparks aside melancholic monologues. Harris’ The Duchess (of Malfi), an adaptation of John Webster’s Duchess of Malfi, opened at the Royal Lyceum Theatre in 2019 . [20] Harris has directed for a number of theatres, including the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Traverse Theatre, The Tron Theatre, 7:84 and the Royal Lyceum Theatre. In 2017 she directed Caryl Churchill's A Number for the Royal Lyceum Theatre and was awarded Best Director in the 2017 Scottish Critics CATS awards. [24] Recent directing work includes The Duchess of Malfi, Christmas Tales, Scent of Roses for the Royal Lyceum Theatre where she is currently directing her new version of Shakespeare's Macbeth with the title Macbeth (an undoing). [25]

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Then suddenly Europe is plunged into a massive financial crisis. The banks fail; credit cards and debit cards are useless. People lose everything; they begin to migrate south. At this point the nightmare gets even more nightmarish. By flipping the North-South divide on its head, Harris confronts us with uncomfortable questions: what if Germany became like Greece? What if we all depended on aid from Africa? What if everyone wanted to migrate south? What if? Could we survive the perilous boat journey across the Mediterranean? She was Associate Director at the Traverse Theatre from 2015 – 2018 and the current Associate Artistic Director at the Royal Lyceum Theatre.This story will be told, the way it has always been told. What else use is it otherwise? The hags on the heath. The woman who went mad. The man who became a tyrant. In 2017, she adapted Ibsen's The Master Builder for the West Yorkshire Playhouse, the resultant play was called The Fall of the Master Builder and was directed by James Brining.