How to Hold Your Breath

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Harris’ original play, The Scent of Roses, had its world premiere at the Royal Lyceum Theatre in 2022, [22] followed by a revival of Further than the Furthest Thing at the Young Vic in London the following year. 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. La Cuisine de Bar in nearby Cadogan Gardens serves a delicious selection of tartines (toasted open sandwiches) freshly made for you at the counter. To save this article to your Dropbox account, please select one or more formats and confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. I wanted the play to have a relationship with the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, a myth that was created to address the impossibility of death; when someone dies you simply cannot accept that you will not see them again.

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A subsequent production opened at the Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh in April 2013 in a co-production with the National Theatre of Scotland. Plays one: Further than the furthest thing; Midwinter; How to hold your breath; Meet me at dawn Harris, Z. He has just been awarded the prestigious Master Builder award, his beautiful wife still loves him, his beautiful secretary still flirts with him and Prince Charles is coming to open. However, Harris steers the play in another direction where reality fractures in a journey that increasingly becomes a nightmare.Maxine Peake – the only unalloyed spark of light – has had a rum night with a chap who dopily thinks she is on the game because she comes on to him.

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Aeschylus' Oresteia opens with Agamemnon sacrificing his daughter to the gods; an act which sets in motion a bloody cycle of revenge and counter-revenge. But she does draw great, naturalistic performances from her cast, first and foremost Peake, who effectively holds the whole thing together with sheer incandescent presence. It is no secret that art has, for a long time, had a gender problem and, despite the extraordinarily varied canon of British theatre, it is no exception.Harris’ weighty script requires her to snap between youthful flirtation and wide-eyed horror, and she radiates energy with every character twist and turn. In the most dynamic scene she is perched at the top of a vertiginous slope, trying not to slide down towards the outstretched arms of a drowning crowd.