Even Stillness Breathes Softly Against a Brick Wall
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published:28th May '13
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
From the daily grind to lyrical flights, Even Stillness Breathes Softly Against a Brick Wall is a two-person play full of the allure and danger of escape.
“I believe in this. I believe in here. Me and you.”
Everyday life, is it nothing but a series of creeping, soul-destroying disillusionments and compromises? This young couple start to think so, falling further and further into a lyrical, wild and emotional world of their own, but their escape could prove much more dangerous than the conformity they’ve rejected.
Combining shrewd observation of the toils of daily living, with a keen and lyrical style, Even Stillness Breathes Softly Against a Brick Wall by exciting young playwright Brad Birch is sure to inspire and delight audiences and readers alike.
A riff on the idea of life being a series of reassuringly familiar, yet despairingly empty actions . . . Birch’s play is a fluid poem, meandering through repetitive days, rolling through thoughts and speeches with a nicely judged turn of phrase -- Daisy Bowie-Sell * Time Out *
A play of strong poetic feeling ... the play has a strong sense of claustrophobia and the idea that consumer society results in a living death, with all of us sleepwalking towards the grave, runs through the events like a slash of red lipstick ... there is a subversive joy in its gestures of anger, and some of its stage images linger to haunt the imagination — just like its title. -- Aleks Sierz * Arts Desk *
ISBN: 9781472507099
Dimensions: 128mm x 196mm x 8mm
Weight: 80g
96 pages