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Out of Love (NHB Modern Plays)

Elinor Cook

Publisher: Nick Hern Books

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Summary

A tale of friendship, love and rivalry over thirty years from award-winning playwright Elinor Cook.
Lorna and Grace do everything together. They share crisps, cigarettes and crushes. That's what happens when you're best friends forever.
But when Lorna gets a place at university, and Grace gets pregnant, they suddenly find themselves in starkly different worlds. Can anything bridge the gap between them?
Elinor Cook's play Out of Love was first produced in 2017 by Paines Plough in their pop-up theatre, Roundabout, in a co-production with Theatr Clywd and the Orange Tree Theatre.

Available since: 08/03/2017.

Print length: 112 pages.

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