Synopsis
Stitching
$15.99 Published by Methuen
We will mend it...
In the light of a pregnancy, a faithless couple pick apart their relationship, stitch by painful stitch. Can it be mended? Anthony Neilson's dark and intimate new play is a love story set at the extremes of brutality, banality and tenderness
"Explodes with power, discipline, integrity and sheer cruel psychological accuracy ... Neilson's writing has a terrible beauty" ~ Sunday Times
"Startlingly rich and challenging, Neilson depicts with aching precision a relationship in which love is undermined by distrust" ~ Time Out
"Shattering, shocking...a serious, persuasive account of the blind alleys love can lead us down" ~ Daily Telegraph
"A characteristically brave and brutal offering" ~ Independent
"A deeply mesmerising, if shocking, experience as a couple smashes through taboo after taboo in a harrowing sexual tug of war" ~ Evening Standard