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When she was little, she was so happy. I know everyone says that. I do. She can't stay awake. - She sold drugs. - She's good at interrogations. - She drinks in the mornings. - She ate a rabbit. - She smashed up a shop. - She stabbed a man. - She used a hammer. - She had a baby. - She can't find her mother. - She's covered in blood and doesn't know why. This striking new play from Alice Birch, directed by Maria Aberg, takes a kaleidoscopic view of what happens when a woman goes to prison. BLANK] receives its full-length premiere to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Clean Break, the leading theatre company working with women affected by the criminal justice system.
Performers Ayesha Antoine, Shona Babayemi, Sophia Brown, Jackie Clune, Grace Doherty, Lucy Edkins, Zaris-Angel Hator, Zainab Hasan, Joanna Horton, Thusitha Jayasundera, Petra Letang, Leah Mondesir-Simmonds, Kate O'Flynn, Ashna Rabheru, Jemima Rooper, Taya Tower.
Author Alice Birch. Producer Donmar Warehouse. Producer Clean Break. Director Maria Aberg. Design Rosie Elnile. Lighting Jess Bernberg. Sound Carolyn Downing. Design Heta Multanen (video). Director Ayse Tashkiran (movement director). Director Anna Cooper (casting director).