Our New Girl & Little Dolls: two plays
12 Jan 2012Size: 198mm x 129mm
20 Dec 2021
Our New Girl & Little Dolls: two plays
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Lyric Theatre, Belfast
From Tue 8 Apr 2025 to Sun 4 May 2025
Two plays from one of Ireland's leading dramatists.
Our New Girl is a startling psychological drama about the darker side of modern parenthood.
Behind the shiny door of Hazel Robinson's immaculate London home, things aren't as good as they look. Her plastic surgeon husband, Richard, has embarked on his latest charitable mission to Haiti, leaving the heavily pregnant Hazel to cope with a failing business and a problem son. When a professional nanny arrives unannounced on her doorstep, Hazel finds her home under the shadow of a seemingly perfect stranger, and one who has an agenda of her own.
Nancy Harris's play Our New Girl was first performed at the Bush Theatre, London, in 2012.
This volume also includes her short play, Little Dolls.
Vicky seeks counselling from John to overcome her intense fear of darkness. But what if there really is some truth in her anxiety, and what if the darkness really is a disease?
Little Dolls was first performed as part of the Bush Theatre's Broken Space season in 2008.
'Mercilessly accurate... this fiendish little play [Our New Girl] is spot-on'
Daily Mail'[Our New Girl is a] tightly wound drama of domestic noir... sharp observations and crackling dialogue... so tense that the audience was audibly inhaling'
Guardian'Our New Girl is both gripping and deeply unsettling'
Daily Telegraph'Our New Girl has a wonderful sly, sharp humour and thematic subtlety'
Independent'Gripping... Our New Girl is a stealthy, see-sawing psychological drama... Little by little, multiple layers of guilt, blame, recrimination and loathing emerge, simmer and eventually boil over into a domestic storm from which there is no refuge'
The Stage'Bold, modern and unmissable... Our New Girl is a psychological drama that sinks its teeth into the messy realities of modern parenthood, domestic power dynamics, and the unsettling presence of an outsider... unfolds with a slow-burning intensity that neatly balances dramatic tension and narrative ambiguity... Harris skilfully plays with familiar tropes (the sinister nanny, the disturbed child), but she twists them into something fresh, avoiding cliché through sharp dialogue and a balance of humour and dread... left the press night audience gasping in shock'
No More Workhorse'Truly shocking... Our New Girl keeps the balance of comedy and anxiety teetering on a knife's edge... Razor-sharp in both thrill and wit'
Arts Despatch12 Jan 2012Size: 198mm x 129mm
20 Dec 2021
