Penelope Skinner's plays include
Friendly Monsters (MTC online lockdown reading),
Angry Alan (Underbelly/Soho),
Meek (Traverse/Birmingham Rep),
Linda (Royal Court/MTC),
The Ruins of Civilisation (MTC),
Fred's Diner (Chichester Festival Theatre/Magic Theatre, San Francisco),
The Sound of Heavy Rain (Paines Plough/Crucible),
The Village Bike (Royal Court/MCC),
Eigengrau (Bush),
Fucked (Old Red Lion/Assembly Rooms) and
Lyonesse (Harold Pinter Theatre). For
The Village Bike she was the recipient of the 2011 George Devine Award and the 2011 Evening Standard Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright. For
Linda she was shortlisted for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and was the winner of the Berwin Lee Award. For
Angry Alan she was the recipient of the Edinburgh Fringe First Award.
What I'm asking is, is she a sympathetic heroine? Are we going to be on her side?
Elaine, a once-famous actress who disappeared thirty years ago in mysterious circumstances, is ready to tell her story. She summons Kate, a young film executive, to her remote Cornish home to assist...
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