54% Acrylic (NHB Modern Plays)

When a young woman shoplifts for the first time, the store detective decides to give chase, but just how far is he prepared to go? This play was first staged at the Tron in Glasgow in 2010.

Auteur

David Harrower is an internationally acclaimed playwright. Previous work includes Knives in Hens (Traverse Theatre and Bush Theatre); Kill the Old Torture Their Young, Dark Earth (Traverse Theatre); The Chrysalids (NT Connections); Presence (Royal Court Theatre); Blackbird (Edinburgh International Festival, West End, Manhattan Theatre Club and Sydney Theatre Company); 365 (National Theatre of Scotland). Adaptations include Six Characters in Search of an Author, The Good Soul of Szechuan and Sweet Nothings, a version of Schnitzler's Liebelei (Young Vic Theatre); Woyzeck (Edinburgh Lyceum Theatre); Ivanov, Tales from the Vienna Woods (Royal National Theatre); The Girl on the Sofa (Edinburgh International Festival and the Schaubuhne, Berlin); Mary Stuart (National Theatre of Scotland)