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Reasons You Should(n't) Love Me
Juno was born with spina bifida and is now clumsily navigating her twenties amidst street healers, love, loneliness – and the feeling of being an unfinished project.
For a long time I didn’t know how it’d work.
Or what I’d be able to feel.
People would ask me if I could have sex and I’d feign shock and act wildly offended whilst secretly wanting to grab them by the shoulders and be like "I don’t know, Janet!"
Winner of the Women’s Prize for Playwriting 2020, Amy Trigg’s remarkable debut play is a hilarious, heart-warming tale about how shit our wonderful lives can be.
'A performance of mesmerising intensity' ★★★★★ New European
'Trigg is terrific' ★★★★ The Telegraph
'Bravura one-woman show is a knock-out' ★★★★ Evening Standard
'A tour de force performance' ★★★★ Ham & High
'Enormously entertaining' ★★★★ The Guardian
'A hilarious, honest and heartwarming play which demands an audience' ★★★★ WhatsOnStage
'Wonderfully heartfelt and beautifully delivered' ★★★★ Theatre Weekly
Presented by Paines Plough in association with Women’s Prize for Playwriting, 45 North and Kiln Theatre.
Suitable for ages 14+ years.
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£15
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