Enough E-Book

Stef Smith

• Herausgeber: Nick Hern Books
• Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2019

Beschreibung

'When I walk into a room, in my uniform. There is a look that gets thrown my way. When I walk into a room, in my uniform. It's as if for second everything stops.' Jane and Toni are immaculate, iconic, accommodating flight attendants. They're here for your safety, your comfort and your pleasure. Or so you think. But 30,000 feet below them their seemingly perfect lives are rapidly unravelling. In the sky, over the sea and in cheap hotel rooms around the world, they can feel the ground shake beneath them. Something is rising up, something which cannot be ignored. And it's calling out for them. If they're going to survive what's coming, something needs to change. Poetic, unpredictable and explosive, Stef Smith's play Enough is a fragmentary and intense journey into female friendship, and unearths what happens when you can no longer be the woman people want. Enough premiered at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, as part of the 2019 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, winning a Fringe First Award.

Leseprobe

Stef Smith

ENOUGH

NICK HERN BOOKS

London

www.nickhernbooks.co.uk

Contents

Original Production

Dedication

Acknowledgements

Epigraph

Characters

Enough

About the Author

Copyright and Performing Rights Information

Enough was commissioned by the Traverse Theatre and first performed at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, on 2 August 2019, with the following cast:

JANE

Louise Ludgate

TONI

Amanda Wright

Director

Bryony Shanahan

Set, Costume & Lighting Designer

Kai Fischer

Composer & Sound Designer

Alexandra Faye Braithwaite

Associate Sound Designer

Annie May Fletcher

Assistant Director

Sharon Mackay (supported by The Robertson Trust)

Production Manager

Kevin McCallum

Chief Electrician

Renny Robertson

Head of Stage

Gary Staerck

Lighting & Sound Technicians

Dave Bailey

Joe Davis

Company Stage Manager

Gemma Turner

Deputy Stage Manager

Seána Green

Assistant Stage Manager

Bekah Eva Astles

Costume Supervisor

Victoria Brown

Stage Management Work Placement

Kat Wellman

For Rose.

One of the kindest and smartest people on the planet, who through the years has selflessly offered her support as I wrote this play. She has taught me a life-changing amount about both art and friendship.

I will be forever thankful that we chose each other.

Acknowledgements

My sincere appreciation to the cast, crew and creatives who were involved in the premiere production of Enough. And of course, to the brilliant team at the Traverse Theatre.

My thanks to Orla O’Loughlin, who encouraged me to write this play and has been crucial to its evolution. Further thanks to all those who have been part of its development, in particular: Rosie Kellagher, Shauna MacDonald, Ros Sydney and Anita Vettesse.

As ever, thank you to my agent Davina Shah, the team at MLR, the team at Nick Hern Books and my incredibly supportive theatre-making peers.

I’d also like to thank my friends and family for the text messages, cups of coffee, glasses of dry white wine and for always listening. This play makes me think of all the wonderful women I have my life – I am very lucky and you are all so very brilliant.

Finally, thank you to Bryony Shanahan. For her compassion and craft, her friendship and fire.

S.S.

‘You have to pick the places you don’t walk away from.’

Joan Didion

‘I think the wrong things are kept private.’

Nan Goldin

Characters

JANE, forties

TONI, forties

Both are flight attendants and have been friends for many years.

Note

A forward slash (/) denotes a line running into the next without a pause.

There are very few stage directions; imagine it as you wish.

This ebook was created before the end of rehearsals and so may differ slightly from the play as performed.