Collapsible
Cast: 1f 1m
Staging: Minimal requirements
Amateur rights performance fee: £85 per performance (plus VAT where applicable)
8 Aug 2019Size: 198mm x 129mm
8 Aug 2019
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- Fishamble New Writing Award at the Dublin Fringe Festival - 2019
- VAULT Origins Award for Outstanding New Work - 2019
Essie's lost her job. Her girlfriend's left. But she's alright. Except lately she feels more like a chair than a person. One of those folding chairs. Solid one minute. And then.
Margaret Perry's play Collapsible is a funny, furious monologue about holding on in this collapsing world. It was premiered at the 2019 VAULT Festival, London, where it won the Origins Award for Outstanding New Work.
It transferred to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and the Dublin Fringe Festival in 2019 (winning the Fishamble New Writing Award), and the Bush Theatre, London, in 2020, in a co-production between Ellie Keel Productions and HighTide.
Note for Performers: While Collapsible is ostensibly a monologue play for a female performer, it contains an additional scripted role for a male performer. It contributes to the play's impact if the audience is not aware of this in advance.
Collapsible is also available in the collection Plays from VAULT 4.
‘I’ll tell you what I really want.
I want to jump clean out of my brain.’
'Unequivocally an outstanding piece of theatre. It cuts through stereotypical representations of those suffering with poor mental health, hitting on the raw, painful truth'
A Younger Theatre'Perry's writing is sharp... a modern Beckettian cry for help'
Guardian'Luminescent and often startling... Perry writes with clarity and insight about mental unravelling and she achieves a wonderful balancing act'
The StageCast: 1f 1m
Staging:Minimal requirements
Amateur rights performance fee: £85 per performance (plus VAT where applicable)
8 Aug 2019Size: 198mm x 129mm
8 Aug 2019
