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Highlights
- In a cottage by the sea, four women live in a house made for five.
- About the Author: Cordelia Lynn is a playwright, librettist and dramaturg.
- Drama, European
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Book Synopsis
In a cottage by the sea, four women live in a house made for five. Meals are prepared, stories are shared and the waves break on the shore. When only one of their two expected guests arrives for the summer, life is about to change for all of them...Cordelia Lynn's Sea Creatures is a haunting play about grief, loss and the power of storytelling. It opened at Hampstead Theatre, London, in March 2023, directed by James Macdonald.
Review Quotes
"Bewitching and otherworldly... a languid meditation on grief, resilience, and the primal forces of creation and destruction."--The Stage
"A rough jewel of a play... an audacious study of family grief and love."--Guardian
"Deeply evocative."--Time Out
"Raw and gripping."--The Upcoming
"Wildly atmospheric and intriguing... leans into fables of the sea and eerie archetypes with powerful poetry... hypnotic, funny and thought-provoking - an exciting new play."--LondonTheatre1
"Adventurous, witty and given wings by wonderful sights and sounds... marvelous."--Observer
About the Author
Cordelia Lynn is a playwright, librettist and dramaturg. She received the Berwin Lee Award, 2020, the Harold Pinter Award, 2017, and the Jerwood New Playwright, 2015.
Her plays include: Sea Creatures (Hampstead Theatre, 2023); Love and Other Acts of Violence (Donmar Warehouse, London, 2021); Hedda Tesman, after Henrik Ibsen (Headlong / Chichester Festival Theatre / The Lowry, 2019); a version of Chekhov's Three Sisters (Almeida Theatre, London, 2019); Lela & Co. (Royal Court Theatre, London, 2015); Believers Anonymous (Rosemary Branch Theatre, 2012); and After the War, which has been performed in venues around the UK and abroad.